In 1987 it was adapted as the first episode of the highly successful television series inspired by the novels, also called Inspector Morse.

Detective Chief Inspector E. Morse of the Thames Valley Police meets Anne Scott at a party hosted by Mrs Murdoch in North Oxford.

Six months later Anne Scott is found hanging in her kitchen at 9 Canal Reach, Jericho, Oxford.

Dexter gives a big clue to what might have been going on in Anne Scott's mind with one chapter headed with this epigram from Sophocles's Oedipus Rex: "We saw a knotted pendulum, a noose: and a strangled woman swinging there".

"The Dead of Jericho" is the first instalment of the Inspector Morse TV series starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately (as Detective Sergeant Lewis).