Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter EPUB

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Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter



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Norman Colin Dexter, OBE (born 29 September 1930), better known as Colin Dexter, is 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. His characters have spawned a sequel series, Lewis, and a prequel series, Endeavour.

Norman Colin Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Alfred and Dorothy Dexter, and was educated at St. John’s Infants School, Bluecoat Junior School and Stamford School, a boys’ public school, where one of his contemporaries was the England international cricket captain and England international rugby player M. J. K. Smith. Colin had a brother, John Alfred Dexter, a fellow classicist, who taught Classics at The King’s School, Peterborough, and a sister, Avril. Alfred Dexter ran a small garage and taxi company from premises in Scotgate, Stamford.

Whilst at Bluecoat Junior School Colin recalls a wartime air raid where, following the sounding of the all-clear, a German Messerschmitt fighter appeared above the school and machine-gunned the playground, leaving a zig-zag pattern towards the properties opposite. At Stamford School Colin played cricket, tennis and hockey and was a member of the school 1st XV rugby team in 1948. After completing his national service with the Royal Corps of Signals, Colin read Classics at Christ’s College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving an honorary master’s degree in 1958.

In 1954, he started his teaching career in the East Midlands, becoming assistant Classics master at Wyggeston School, Leicester. A post at Loughborough Grammar School followed before he took up the position of senior Classics teacher at Corby Grammar School, Northamptonshire, in 1959. In 1956 he married Dorothy Cooper, and they had a son and a daughter. In 1966, he was forced by the onset of deafness to retire from teaching and took up the post of senior assistant secretary at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) in Oxford, a job he held until his retirement in 1988.

Dexter featured prominently in the BBC programme “How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword” as part of the Time Shift series broadcast in November 2008, in which he recounted some of the crossword clues solved by Morse.

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