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Colin Dexter (1930–2017)

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Norman Colin Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England on September 29, 1930. He received a bachelor's degree in classics in 1953 and a master's degree in 1958 at from Christ's College, Cambridge University. He taught classics for many years, but growing deafness forced him to retire in toon meer 1966. For the next two decades, he was the senior assistant secretary at the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations. He retired in 1988 to become a full-time writer. He was best known for creating the character Chief Inspector Morse. The Inspector Morse series began in 1975 with Last Bus to Woodstock and ended in 1999 with The Remorseful Day. The books were adapted into the television series Inspector Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000. Dexter won the British Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for The Wench is Dead in 1989 and again in 1992 for The Way Through the Woods. He received the organization's lifetime achievement award, the Diamond Dagger, in 1997. He also wrote Cracking Cryptic Crosswords: A Guide to Solving Cryptic Crosswords in 2010. He died on March 21, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Dwaalspoor (1975) 1,487 exemplaren
The Remorseful Day (1999) 1,472 exemplaren
Death is Now My Neighbour (1996) 1,293 exemplaren
The Way Through the Woods (1992) 1,272 exemplaren
De dochters van Kaïn (1994) 1,223 exemplaren
Last Seen Wearing (1976) 1,171 exemplaren
The Wench is Dead (1989) 1,164 exemplaren
De doden van Jericho (1981) 1,058 exemplaren
The Jewel That Was Ours (1991) 1,044 exemplaren
Requiem een inspecteur Morse-thriller (1979) 1,008 exemplaren
De stilte rond Nicholas Quinn (1977) 998 exemplaren
Het raadsel van de derde mijl (1983) 965 exemplaren
The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986) 917 exemplaren
The First Inspector Morse Omnibus (1977) 231 exemplaren
The Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1900) 168 exemplaren
The Third Inspector Morse Omnibus (1991) 145 exemplaren
Cracking Cryptic Crosswords (2009) 21 exemplaren
Chambers Morse Crosswords (2006) 16 exemplaren
75 Years of 'The Times' Crossword (2005) 13 exemplaren
The Inside Story (1993) 10 exemplaren
Neighbourhood watch (1993) 2 exemplaren
A Case of Mis-Identity (1998) 2 exemplaren
The Burglar - story (1994) 2 exemplaren
Guide to contemporary politics (1966) 2 exemplaren
Terminus 1 exemplaar
Scherzo 1 exemplaar
Striker 1 exemplaar
Promised Land 1 exemplaar
Dernier bus pour Woodstock (2020) 1 exemplaar
Moordvakanties 1 exemplaar
Clued Up [short story] (2009) 1 exemplaar
Last Call 1 exemplaar
The Carpet-Bagger 1 exemplaar
Monty's Revolver 1 exemplaar
Dead as a Dodo 1 exemplaar
As Good as Gold [short story] (1994) 1 exemplaar
The Double Crossing 1 exemplaar

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Officiële naam
Dexter, Norman Colin
Geboortedatum
1930-09-29
Overlijdensdatum
2017-03-21
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Opleiding
Bluecoat Junior School
Stamford School
University of Cambridge (Christ's College)
Beroepen
Assistant Classics Master (Wyggeston School)
Senior Classics Master (Corby Grammar School)
Senior Assistant Secretary (University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations)
novelist
short-story writer
Organisaties
Crime Writers' Association
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Cartier Diamond Dagger 1997
Korte biografie
Colin Dexter began his career as a teacher of Greek and Latin, but increasing deafness made him give it up. He took a job with the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations in Summertown, and moved there with his wife Dorothy (nee Cooper) in 1966. Before beginning to write fiction, he produced general studies textbooks. A wet summer vacation in North Wales with two complaining children and nothing to do gave him the impetus to write his first detective story. It took a while for the Morse novels to gain popularity, which made Dexter keep his day job for 22 years until he retired. He won the coveted gold dagger from the Crime Writers Association for best crime novel of the year more than once, and several runners-up silver daggers. The Morse novels were adapted as a highly-successful British television series called Inspector Morse, which ran from 1987 to 2000.

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Nadat de tiener Valerie Taylor verdween op weg van buis naar school, was er geen enkel spoor van een dader en het meisje leek van de aardbodem weggevaagd. Maar twee jaar, drie maande 'n en twee dagen na de mysterieuze verdwijning besluit iemand om verrassend nieuw bewijs voor de zaak te leveren.
 
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De moord op Nicholas Quinn, een zo goed als dove secretaris van het Foreign Examinations Syndicate, een Oxford-instelling die in het buitenland examens afneemt op Engelse leest. Bijna alle 6 topkaders van het Syndicate blijken verdacht. Morse ontdekt al vlug dat door iemand op grote schaal gesjoemeld wordt met de examens en dat vele topkaders valse alibi opge¬ven. In de loop van het onderzoek wordt nog een ander lid gedood.
Morse begaat een aantal misstappen maar weet het mysterie toch te ontsluieren. De plot is niet zo sterk omdat eerst een heel andere, aanvaardbare uitleg wordt gegeven door Morse, die dan plots van mening verandert en het zelfde scenario in handen legt van een tot dan toe als compleet incompetent afgeschilderd figuur wordt gelegd.… (meer)
 
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