Colin Dexter RIP

[AmexRuislip]

Colin Dexter, who wrote the Inspector Morse books, has died at the age of 86.
His publisher said in a statement on Tuesday: "With immense sadness, MacMillan announces the death of Colin Dexter who died peacefully at his home in Oxford this morning."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39342698

Such a shame, Morse was brilliant

 

[Is it PotG?]

Love the way he did a Hitchcock and wanted to make a cameo in each episode. RIP.

 

[Mackenzie]

Just read all his Morse books, they were great.

 

[pearl]

quite like Endeavour (on TV)

 

[studio150]

A master detective writer, RIP

 

[DJ NOBO]

Just read all his Morse books, they were great.

Any particular recommendations?

 

[Mackenzie]

Any particular recommendations?

I got a box set from 'The Works' and read them all, one after another, over the course of a couple of weeks. 13 books in all

Just pick any one they're all good stories.

 

[The Albion Roar]

Badly indict explorer (5,6,3)

 

[The Clamp]

The Morse books and tv series got me into a life long love of detective fiction. A sad passing but a long life lived well.

 

[soistes]

When I was a student, I had a summer job at the Oxford Examinations Board, in Summertown, North Oxford (the long hot summer of 1976), marking multiple choice O level exam papers. The guy who managed the department I worked in was a terse disciplinarian sort of bloke with an unfriendly manner who took a dim view of the long-haired students in the temporary staff, their poor work rate, slack timekeeping etc. The only other thing I remembered about him was that some of the permanent staff used to laugh about the detective novels he wrote in his spare time, and how unlikely it was that he'd ever make a success of them. It was only years later that I worked out who "Mr Dexter" was.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Yeah, but what's Shane Duffy's opinion of the guy?

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[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I remember him scoring a cracking century at the County Ground against Surrey .. suave , sophisticated and an all round 'Chap'.

Sadly missed..

TNBA

TTF

 

[luppers]

I went to a boot fair some time ago and towards closing time saw a stall with the boxed set of all the Morse books. the stallholder said she could not be bothered taking them home again and sold them to me for £1