Colin Dexter (1930–2017)
Författare till Sista bussen till Woodstock
Om författaren
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 visa mer 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) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Colin Dexter
The Fourth Inspector Morse Omnibus (The Way Through the Woods / The Daughters of Cain / Death is Now My Neighbour) (1998) 87 exemplar
Tre fall för Kommisarie Morse: Sista bussen till Woodstock / Flicka försvunnen / Nicholas Quinns tysta värld (1997) 75 exemplar
Colin Dexter Omnibus: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead (2008) 30 exemplar
Inspector Morse Set One: The Dead of Jericho / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead… (2005) 16 exemplar
Masterpiece Mystery: The Complete Inspector Lewis - The Pilot and Complete Series 1-4 (2011) 11 exemplar
Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama Collection: Three Classic Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 9 exemplar
Morse Omnibus: The Riddle of the Third Mile / The Wench is Dead / The Daughters of Cain (2001) 9 exemplar
Morse Omnibus: The Secret of Annexe 3 / Last Bus to Woodstock / Service of All the Dead (2000) 8 exemplar
Morse's Greatest Mystery [short story] 7 exemplar
Last Seen Wearing | The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn | Death Is Now My Neighbour (2003) 5 exemplar
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / New York Babylon / Reiche Kunden killt man nicht (1993) 2 exemplar
The Case of the Curious Quorum 2 exemplar
Doodstijding Inspecteur Morse 1 exemplar
The third inspector Morse omnibus 1 exemplar
Striker 1 exemplar
Scherzo 1 exemplar
Terminus 1 exemplar
Sipario per l'ispettore Morse 1 exemplar
Evans tries an O-Level 1 exemplar
Promised Land 1 exemplar
At the Lulu-Bar Motel 1 exemplar
The Double Crossing 1 exemplar
Moordvakanties 1 exemplar
Last Seen Wearing | Object Lesson | Killing Mr. Griffin — Författare — 1 exemplar
The daughters of Cain 1 exemplar
Dead as a Dodo 1 exemplar
Monty's Revolver 1 exemplar
Three by Colin Dexter 1 exemplar
Inspector Morse's Greatest Mystery: Collection of 11 Silver Dagger Mysteries by Colin Dexter (1995) 1 exemplar
Mr E. Morse, BA Oxon (Failed) [short story] 1 exemplar
Morse's Greatest Mystery 1 exemplar
Last Call 1 exemplar
The Carpet-Bagger 1 exemplar
Último autobús a Woodstock (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 206 exemplar
The World of Inspector Morse: A Complete A-Z Reference for the Morse Enthusiast (1998) — Förord — 15 exemplar
Inspector Morse 02: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn [Videorecording] (2004) — Original Story — 11 exemplar
Inspector Morse 14: Driven to Distraction [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 10 exemplar
Inspector Morse 04: The Wolvercote Tongue [Videorecording] (1992) — Original characters — 9 exemplar
Inspector Morse 13: The Sins of the Fathers [Videorecording] (1990) — Original characters — 7 exemplar
Inspector Morse 16: Second Time Around [Videorecording] — Original characters — 5 exemplar
Inspector Morse 18: Who Killed Harry Field? [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 5 exemplar
Inspector Morse 27: The Day of the Devil [Videorecording] — Original characters — 4 exemplar
Inspector Morse 23: The Death of the Self [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 4 exemplar
Inspector Morse: Dead on Time - Collection Set [Episodes 18-23] (2005) — Original characters — 4 exemplar
Inspector Morse: Service Of All The Dead/The Wolvercote Tongue — Original Story — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Dexter, Norman Colin
- Födelsedag
- 1930-09-29
- Avled
- 2017-03-21
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Utbildning
- Bluecoat Junior School
Stamford School
University of Cambridge (Christ's College) - Yrken
- 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 - Organisationer
- Crime Writers' Association
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 1997
- Kort biografi
- 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 i Book Discussion : Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter (april 2017)
Recensioner
As a fan of the TV series starring John Thaw I had hoped to enjoy this novel more than I did. I realised after buying it that it is late in the set of novels and therefore Morse is in decline, accelerating the process by being unable to give up smoking and drinking despite having to spend a few days in hospital due to an exacerbated chest infection. The plot is rather convoluted featuring two murders, one leading on from another, and with one of the victims being so unlikeable that you end up rooting for the murderers to get away with it.
Structurally the author's erudition is on display with apposite quotations heading up each of the chapters. I found the old style of narrative where there is an omniscient author who occasionally intrudes very obviously into the text, together with the constant head hopping whereby we are told what every character in a scene is thinking, rather off putting. Also Morse is made rather unlikeable himself in this novel with even Lewis looking askance at him at one point. Afterwards I viewed the TV adaptation and found it had been considerably streamlined and the whole subplot of Morse's ill health and decline towards a projected retirement in a couple of years omitted. Of course there are a lot more episodes than novels so the character could not be killed off so quickly on TV. On the whole though, some of the more questionable and unconvincing parts of the novel such as Morse's reciprocated and unrequited love with the prostitute daughter of one character were well advisedly excised from the TV version with no loss as far as I was concerned. All in all, I would rate this at 3 stars.… (mer)
Structurally the author's erudition is on display with apposite quotations heading up each of the chapters. I found the old style of narrative where there is an omniscient author who occasionally intrudes very obviously into the text, together with the constant head hopping whereby we are told what every character in a scene is thinking, rather off putting. Also Morse is made rather unlikeable himself in this novel with even Lewis looking askance at him at one point. Afterwards I viewed the TV adaptation and found it had been considerably streamlined and the whole subplot of Morse's ill health and decline towards a projected retirement in a couple of years omitted. Of course there are a lot more episodes than novels so the character could not be killed off so quickly on TV. On the whole though, some of the more questionable and unconvincing parts of the novel such as Morse's reciprocated and unrequited love with the prostitute daughter of one character were well advisedly excised from the TV version with no loss as far as I was concerned. All in all, I would rate this at 3 stars.… (mer)
On staycation, Morse comes across the solved case of the murder of a churchwarden followed a few days later by the suicide of the Vicar of St. Frideswide's, assumed to be the murderer, but he feels something isn't right.
The trouble is that although I like Oxford setting and the fiendishly clever puzzles in these books, I've come to realise that despite the occasional flashes of erudition I don't actually like Morse himself very much. Yes, this is the 1970s but the spectacle of a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager who has just discovered the top shelf at the newsagent's is just too depressing.… (mer)
The trouble is that although I like Oxford setting and the fiendishly clever puzzles in these books, I've come to realise that despite the occasional flashes of erudition I don't actually like Morse himself very much. Yes, this is the 1970s but the spectacle of a middle-aged man who acts like a teenager who has just discovered the top shelf at the newsagent's is just too depressing.… (mer)
Nicholas Quinn, a member of the Oxford Foreign Examinations Syndicate, who is almost totally deaf but a very talented lip reader, is found murdered at his home. Morse and Lewis investigate.
I enjoy these stories, and there was a good twist at the end, but I wish Hathaway was involved.
I enjoy these stories, and there was a good twist at the end, but I wish Hathaway was involved.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 107
- Även av
- 57
- Medlemmar
- 16,671
- Popularitet
- #1,355
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 338
- ISBN
- 795
- Språk
- 18
- Favoritmärkt
- 45
- Proberstenar
- 359
Morse has a serious health issue which develops in this story but which, in his usual curmudgeonly fashion he tries to ignore as best as he can. He comes up with a number of theories as to who the murderer is, especially when another occurs, and with how it relates to a contest at Lonsdale College where two men and their wives are rivals for the position of the next Master. I'm not sure though that the character of the Master as portrayed, although sickening to Morse, is as obviously nasty as in the TV adaptation which I still remember some years after last viewing it.
There is a foreshadowing of the final novel here and an air of sadness especially over the fate of the young wife of one of the characters. But there is some nice interplay with subtle humour between the two detectives and once again Lewis' long suffering nature is to the fore. Morse finally reveals the secret of his first name in this volume, which was a long kept secret at the time. All in all, a solid and page turning 3 star read.… (mer)