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Welcome to the official website for all fans and detractors of the Morose books, as penned by Ian Sloan, and Howard White (see photo above, with their friend the crow).

In this website we will be exploring not only the world according to Chief Inspector Morose, Oxford Police’s worst and most embarrassing detective; but we will also have video cartoons, a rogue’s gallery,  reviews, a friends message page, and a separate message board for people who hate us (“the bin”).

We also hope to be able to sell the books direct from here, and maybe other merchandise if you’re really out of luck.

So, who is Morose I hear you ask?

Chief Inspector E Morose, like a creation of Colin Dexter, serves Thames Valley area, working out of Oxford nick. Like Morse he has a Geordie sidekick, who enjoys kicking him in the side. Like Morse he has a superintendent above him and a pathologist colleague called Max – and that is where the similarities end.

Morse likes a drink. Morose has gone beyond liking and is now involved in a very passionate affair with anything alcoholic.

Morse is slightly terse with people he sees as beneath his level of intelligence, Morose takes being rude to everyone as a point of principal.

Morse successfully solves his cases, Morose successfully empties cases of anything alcoholic.

In the Morse stories, Morse has no family and his sergeant, Lewis, has a wife we rarely see as well as “kids” we never see. In our Morose stories, he has a brother and absentee parents, and his sergeant, Harris, has a very present family who are often the lynch-pin to resolving their cases.

In the continuing series of novels Morose investigates crimes in and around the Oxford area, as far astray as Wolverhampton and Birmingham.

We would tell you more but then you wouldn’t buy the books!

A few people have been upset or offended, by our writing’s liberal use of curses, swearing, flatulence and frequent cartoon violence. There will, of course, be a platform for these people, just as soon as we have finished the rest of the gallows, installed a trapdoor, and set a rope up.