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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Werken van Colin Dexter
The Fourth Inspector Morse Omnibus (The Way Through the Woods / The Daughters of Cain / Death is Now My Neighbour) (1998) 89 exemplaren
Colin Dexter Omnibus: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead (2008) 31 exemplaren
Inspector Morse Set One: The Dead of Jericho / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead… (2005) 16 exemplaren
Masterpiece Mystery: The Complete Inspector Lewis - The Pilot and Complete Series 1-4 (2011) 11 exemplaren
Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama Collection: Three Classic Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 10 exemplaren
Morse Omnibus: The Riddle of the Third Mile / The Wench is Dead / The Daughters of Cain (2001) 9 exemplaren
Morse's Greatest Mystery [short story] 8 exemplaren
Last Seen Wearing | The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn | Death Is Now My Neighbour (2003) 5 exemplaren
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / New York Babylon / Reiche Kunden killt man nicht (1993) 2 exemplaren
The Case of the Curious Quorum 2 exemplaren
Terminus 1 exemplaar
Scherzo 1 exemplaar
Striker 1 exemplaar
The third inspector Morse omnibus 1 exemplaar
Doodstijding Inspecteur Morse 1 exemplaar
Mr E. Morse, BA Oxon (Failed) [short story] 1 exemplaar
Promised Land 1 exemplaar
Sipario per l'ispettore Morse 1 exemplaar
Moordvakanties 1 exemplaar
Last Seen Wearing | Object Lesson | Killing Mr. Griffin — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Morse's Greatest Mystery 1 exemplaar
Three by Colin Dexter 1 exemplaar
Last Call 1 exemplaar
The Carpet-Bagger 1 exemplaar
Monty's Revolver 1 exemplaar
At the Lulu-Bar Motel 1 exemplaar
Dead as a Dodo 1 exemplaar
Evans tries an O-Level 1 exemplaar
The Double Crossing 1 exemplaar
Inspector Morse's Greatest Mystery: Collection of 11 Silver Dagger Mysteries by Colin Dexter (1995) 1 exemplaar
Último autobús a Woodstock (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
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Inspector Morse 14: Driven to Distraction [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 10 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 18: Who Killed Harry Field? [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 7 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 13: The Sins of the Fathers [Videorecording] (1990) — Original characters — 7 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 31: Death Is Now My Neighbour [Videorecording] (1998) — Original Story — 7 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 24: Absolute Conviction [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 6 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 23: The Death of the Self [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 6 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 28: Twilight of the Gods [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 6 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 25: Cherubim & Seraphim [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 6 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 29: The Way Through the Woods [Videorecording] (2003) — Original Story — 6 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 27: The Day of the Devil [Videorecording] — Original characters — 5 exemplaren
Inspector Morse 16: Second Time Around [Videorecording] — Original characters — 5 exemplaren
Inspector Morse: Dead on Time - Collection Set [Episodes 18-23] (2005) — Original characters — 5 exemplaren
Inspector Morse: Service Of All The Dead/The Wolvercote Tongue (2019) — Original Story — 3 exemplaren
The Jewel That Was Ours (Mystery) - Intermediate 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- 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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Chat in Book Discussion : Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter (april 2017)
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