COLIN DEXTER - The Jewel That Was Ours

Book nine in the Inspector Morse series
For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary, until one of them is found dead at the Randolph Hotel.
It looks like a sudden – and tragic – accident. Only Chief Inspector Morse appears not to overlook the simultaneous theft of a jewel-encrusted antique from the victim's handbag.
Then, two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell. A coincidence? Maybe. But this time Morse is determined to prove the link . . .