For more details about Norman Colin Dexter’s life, you should read his obituary in The Guardian here. In true Hitchcock style, Colin Dexter appeared in all but three Morse episodes.
The novel includes many quotations culled from literary sources, the Bible and philosophical writings.. Dexter is able to write a complex criminal police procedural with clarity, wit and deep insight into the human condition. However, as one reads the words the reader finds themselves breathing the same air as the characters; one feels the characters becoming part of one’s DNA. He was “the man in the wheelchair at Magdalen Bridge” and “the man with crutches in the hospital waiting room”. Colin Dexter's style is literate and lyrical. Norman Colin Dexter was an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels. His novels feature Morse, who is given to theorizing complex solutions to the crimes he has set out to understand, and his more practical and long-suffering partner, Detective Sgt. Lewis. Like his creation, Colin Dexter loved the music of Wagner, the paintings of Vermeer, the writing of Charles Dickens, and the taste of real ale. Colin Dexter was a Morse operator during his National Service in the army – but that’s not how Inspector Morse got his name. Dexter began writing on a family holiday in North Wales when it rained on a Saturday. I’m not going to claim Colin was the best detective writer who ever lived.
The Inspector Morse books were the only successful fiction he wrote. With nothing else to do, Dexter sat down at the kitchen table and started writing a detective novel. well,i won’t compare. Obituary: Colin Dexter Mystery writer whose detective, Morse, pursued clues in 13 novels and the TV series starring John Thaw Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 14:07 Updated: Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 14:08 Read 180 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Colin Dexter, in full Norman Colin Dexter, (born September 29, ... Dexter began writing his first mystery novel to alleviate boredom on a rainy family vacation in the early 1970s. Eine Messe für all die Toten book. Norman Colin Dexter OBE (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, Inspector Morse, from 1987 to 2000. The scope is grander, the wit sharper and intrigue deeper than almost any other book in the series. Colin Dexter first took up writing detective fiction at the age of forty-two, though he admits he’d been reading it most of his life. Colin Dexter has an unerring ability to flesh out his characters without appearing to write very much about them. Colin Dexter’s first name was Norman.
But to my preferences,from the authors i have read,including Indians,Americans,Africans,Britishers,and more. Colin Dexter, a British mystery writer whose irascible, poetry-loving detective, Chief Inspector Morse, pursued clues and cask-conditioned ale through 13 novels and a …
Before becoming a published author, Dexter taught and worked as a secretary at Oxford. We meet a Morse who is somewhat more serious about the idea of self-improvement and, touchingly, still just as bad at it as ever.
Colin Dexter is an English author of crime fiction, featuring his main character Inspector Morse. The reader regrets the loss of such a literary luminary as Inspector Morse. It's as if Colin Dexter decided to take every lesson he'd learned from a long career of writing Morse mysteries and condense them all into a single book. His characters have spawned a sequel series, Lewis, and a prequel series, Endeavour. (not certainly eligible for that) They are all their very own best! His style of writing appears deceptively easy and with the least amount of effort. Like his creation, Colin Dexter loved the music of Wagner, the paintings of Vermeer, the writing of Charles Dickens, and the taste of real ale.