• Norman Colin Dexter (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, which were written...
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  • character of the series of "Morse" detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, a Detective Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley Police in Oxford, England...
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  • British detective drama television series based on a series of novels by Colin Dexter. It starred John Thaw as Detective Chief Inspector Morse, and Kevin Whately...
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    Morse created by Colin Dexter is fond of solving cryptic crosswords, and the crosswords often become part of the mystery. Colin Dexter himself set crosswords...
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    Dexter is an American crime drama television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers...
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    Rising sequence. Sir William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright. Colin Dexter (1930–2017), wrote and set his Inspector Morse detective novels in Oxford...
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  • Last Seen Wearing is a 1976 crime novel by Colin Dexter, the second novel in the Inspector Morse series. The novel was adapted by Thomas Ellice for the...
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  • Lewis over the latter's more traditional approach to detective work. Colin Dexter, the author of the Inspector Morse novels, makes a very brief cameo appearance...
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    admitted to Inspector Morse writer Colin Dexter that he would like to have played cricket professionally for England. Dexter devised the storyline for the...
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    series Dexter, consisting of Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter, Dexter in the Dark, Dexter by Design, Dexter Is Delicious, Double Dexter, the...
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  • The following individuals received both Gold and Silver Dagger awards: Colin Dexter James H. McClure Sara Paretsky Anthony Price Peter Lovesey Ruth Rendell...
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  • The Dead of Jericho (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    Jericho, published in 1981, is a work of English detective fiction by Colin Dexter. It is the fifth novel in the Inspector Morse series. In 1987 it was...
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    episode of the "Inspector Morse" detective drama series based on novels by Colin Dexter, in 1992, and in a 1995 episode of Ghosts, an anthology series of ghost...
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    Lewis is a fictional character in the Inspector Morse crime novels by Colin Dexter. The "sidekick" to Morse, Lewis is a detective sergeant in the Thames...
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  • May 2021. "No one else should play Inspector Morse, says his creator Colin Dexter". The Guardian. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2021. McCann, Jaymi (22...
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    (directed by Steven Berkoff), the complete Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson (The Wind Singer, Slaves...
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  • Last Bus to Woodstock (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    Last Bus to Woodstock is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the first of 13 novels in his Inspector Morse series. Two young women are waiting in Oxford for...
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  • The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the third novel in Inspector Morse series. The plot revolves around the work and staff...
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  • detail in the writing. "The best crime novel I have read this year" – Colin Dexter; "Remarkable...the sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent...
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  • Service of All the Dead (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in his Inspector Morse series. The novel describes a series of murders in and...
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  • Barbara Vine (1987) Ratking by Michael Dibdin (1988) The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter (1989) 1990–1999 Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill (1990) King Solomon's...
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    Camilleri Inspector Morse – created by Colin Dexter Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse – created by Colin Dexter, played by John Thaw in Inspector Morse...
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    Colin Hanks: "Dexter," Bay Area sports, and the Sacramento Kings", Los Angeles Lakers Blog, ESPN Los Angeles. Retrieved on 2014-01-14. "Colin Hanks talks...
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  • (where his contemporaries included cricketer M. J. K. Smith and author Colin Dexter) before reading modern languages at Trinity College Dublin, and trained...
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    which is attended by Inspector Morse in Endeavour based on the novels by Colin Dexter, However, Morse studied at St John's College, Oxford in the novels and...
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  • feminist Charles O. Dexter (1862–1943), American rhododendron hybridizer Colin Dexter, OBE (1930–2017), English crime writer Darrell Dexter (born 1957), Canadian...
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  • Peter Wimsey mysteries. He toured with the author Colin Dexter, performing readings to accompany Dexter's talks.[citation needed] Woolf is also a Vice President...
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    Bradbury (1975) The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (The Morse Series) by Colin Dexter (1977) The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth (1977) The Rebel Angels...
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  • The Riddle of the Third Mile (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    The Riddle of the Third Mile is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the sixth novel in Inspector Morse series. The novel is divided into three books - the first...
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  • The Way Through the Woods (category Novels by Colin Dexter)
    The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. It received the Gold Dagger Award in 1992. The...
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