The Riddle of the Third Mile cover art

The Riddle of the Third Mile

Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 6

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Riddle of the Third Mile

By: Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends December 16, 2025 11:59pm GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Only £0.99 a month for the first 3 months. Pay £0.99 for the first 3 months, and £8.99/month thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Start my membership

About this listen

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all....

By the 16th of July, the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet worried.

Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at approximately 8:15 a.m. on the morning of Friday, 11th July. And nobody had heard from him since.

Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder...

©2017 Colin Dexter (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives Detective Crime Murder

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Last Bus to Woodstock cover art
Rebus cover art
Brother Cadfael cover art
A Closed Eye cover art
The Tinner's Corpse cover art
Ratking cover art
The Mammoth Book of the Adventures of Moriarty cover art
Coffin, Scarcely Used cover art
Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama Collection cover art
Frost at Christmas cover art
A Man Lay Dead cover art
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin cover art
Murder at Madingley Grange cover art
The Charity Shop Detective Agency cover art
Hurt cover art
The Killings at Badger’s Drift cover art
All stars
Most relevant
A very interesting story. I followed it ok until the last few chapters then I got lost. Enjoy

A difficult case

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another great Morse mystery, wonderfully read by Mr. Samuel West. Well worth a listen.

Another classic Morse mystery.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As re title. A little muddled at times, too many twists and turns , and messy in construction. Not one of Colin Dexter's best.
A wonderful performance from Samuel West.

A Convoluted Tale

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant narrator - just right for the story - excellent voices especially Morse and Lewis - nuanced and convincing

Great writing style - absorbing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very complicated story . Many twists and turns and had to go back several times to check what I had missed. Narration by Samuel West as always excellent and probably worth a listen as much for this as the story. Think seeing this may be better than listening but still enjoyable.

Need to stay alert

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews