Endeavour

In 1965, Detective Constable Endeavour Morse reluctantly returns to Oxford, where he studied but failed to graduate from the university, to investigate the disappearance of a missing schoolgirl. Soon he is risking everything in a search for justice that will ultimately shape his destiny.

Burgled gas meters, the sudden death of a pretty young secretarial student, and a string of Post Office robberies threaten to mask the solution to a pair of violent murders, as DC Endeavour Morse and DI Thursday's newly forged relationship is tested to the breaking point.

An unknown menace stalks Oxford. At first glance, the killer appears to be a deranged lunatic, striking at random, but Morse uncovers an underlying method to the madness. The elaborate staging of the crimes suggests the killer shares Endeavour's passion for opera. When letters containing cryptic clues are sent to the Oxford Mail, it seems that Endeavour has finally met his intellectual match.

The prospect of a visit to Oxford by HRH Princess Margaret, who is to unveil a missile at a Cowley factory, has put a spring in the step of Chief Superintendent Bright. But when an unpopular worker, Percy Malleson, is found murdered in a secluded area of the shop floor, Endeavour finds himself deeply embroiled in the affairs of the factory and its owners, the darkly dysfunctional Broom family.

While Endeavour crams for his upcoming sergeant's exam, a hit-and-run accident claims the life of an eminent classics professor. The case is complicated by the appearance of Thursday's old gangland enemy, Vic Kasper, whose arrival in Oxford carries a direct threat to all Thursday holds dear. Morse is drawn back to Lincolnshire to visit his ailing father, leaving Thursday to face his demons alone.