The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse Mysteries)

Much too early on New Year's Day, a grumpy Inspector Morse is summoned to investigate a murder at the Haworth Hotel. The victim is still wearing the Rastafarian costume that won him first prize at the hotel's New Year's Eve party; his female companion and the other guests in the annexe have vanished. It's a mystery that's a stretch even for Morse. But with pit-bull fervor he grabs the truth by the throat and shakes loose the bizarre secrets of a cold-blooded crime of passion. . . . The exceptional talents of Chief Inspector Morse are put to the test when he and his long-suffering subordinate, Sgt. Lewis, are called in to investigate the death of the winner of Hawworth's Hotel's New Year's Eve costume party. From the author of The Dead of Jericho. Martin's. When the old man died, there was probably no great joy in heaven; and quite certainly little if any real grief in Charlbury Drive, the pleasantly unpretentious cul-de-sac of semi-detached houses to which he had retired. Inspector Morse investigates the murder of a guest at a New Year's Eve costume party and finds that all of the suspects seem to have vanished Chief Inspector Morse of the Thames Valley Police investigates a murder at the Haworth Hotel in Oxford