
Synopsis
The Daughters of Cain is the eleventh novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
Bizarre and bewildering – that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be . . . In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to...
Details
416 pages
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is completeThe Sunday Times
No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin DexterThe Guardian
Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectivesThe Times
A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectivesP. D. James, The Sunday Telegraph