Colin Dexter (1930–2017)
Auteur de Last Bus to Woodstock
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Colin Dexter
The Fourth Inspector Morse Omnibus (The Way Through the Woods / The Daughters of Cain / Death is Now My Neighbour) (1998) 89 exemplaires
Last Bus to Woodstock | Last Seen Wearing | The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1997) 78 exemplaires
Colin Dexter Omnibus: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead (2008) 31 exemplaires
Inspector Morse Set One: The Dead of Jericho / The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / Service of All the Dead… (2005) 16 exemplaires
Masterpiece Mystery: The Complete Inspector Lewis - The Pilot and Complete Series 1-4 (2011) 11 exemplaires
Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama Collection: Three Classic Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 10 exemplaires
Morse Omnibus: The Riddle of the Third Mile / The Wench is Dead / The Daughters of Cain (2001) 9 exemplaires
Morse's Greatest Mystery [short story] 8 exemplaires
Morse Omnibus: The Secret of Annexe 3 / Last Bus to Woodstock / Service of All the Dead (2000) 8 exemplaires
Last Seen Wearing | The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn | Death Is Now My Neighbour (2003) 5 exemplaires
The Daughters of Cain [and] Death Is Now My Neighbour 4 exemplaires
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn / New York Babylon / Reiche Kunden killt man nicht (1993) 2 exemplaires
The Other Half (A Mulholland / Strand Magazine Short) 2 exemplaires
The Case of the Curious Quorum 2 exemplaires
Doodstijding Inspecteur Morse 1 exemplaire
The third inspector Morse omnibus 1 exemplaire
Moordvakanties 1 exemplaire
Striker 1 exemplaire
Scherzo 1 exemplaire
Terminus 1 exemplaire
Promised Land 1 exemplaire
Sipario per l'ispettore Morse 1 exemplaire
Last Seen Wearing | Object Lesson | Killing Mr. Griffin — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Mr E. Morse, BA Oxon (Failed) [short story] 1 exemplaire
Three by Colin Dexter 1 exemplaire
Last Call 1 exemplaire
The Carpet-Bagger 1 exemplaire
Monty's Revolver 1 exemplaire
At the Lulu-Bar Motel 1 exemplaire
Dead as a Dodo 1 exemplaire
Evans tries an O-Level 1 exemplaire
The Uncollected Morse: Mr E. Morse, BA Oxon (Failed): Morse and the Mystery of the Drunken Driver / The Case of the… 1 exemplaire
The Double Crossing 1 exemplaire
Morse's Greatest Mystery 1 exemplaire
Inspector Morse's Greatest Mystery: Collection of 11 Silver Dagger Mysteries by Colin Dexter (1995) 1 exemplaire
Último autobús a Woodstock (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (2009) — Contributeur — 211 exemplaires
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane [short story] (1926) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 39 exemplaires
The World of Inspector Morse: A Complete A-Z Reference for the Morse Enthusiast (1998) — Avant-propos — 15 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 14: Driven to Distraction [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 11 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 04: The Wolvercote Tongue [Videorecording] (1992) — Original characters — 11 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 03: Service of All the Dead [Videorecording] (1992) — Original Story — 11 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 02: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn [Videorecording] (2004) — Original Story — 11 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 10: Deceived by Flight [Videorecording] (2002) — Original characters — 10 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 18: Who Killed Harry Field? [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 8 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 31: Death Is Now My Neighbour [Videorecording] (1998) — Original Story — 8 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 13: The Sins of the Fathers [Videorecording] (1990) — Original characters — 8 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 23: The Death of the Self [Videorecording] (1994) — Original characters — 7 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 24: Absolute Conviction [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 7 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 25: Cherubim & Seraphim [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 7 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 28: Twilight of the Gods [Videorecording] (2003) — Original characters — 7 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 29: The Way Through the Woods [Videorecording] (2003) — Original Story — 7 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 16: Second Time Around [Videorecording] — Original characters — 5 exemplaires
Inspector Morse: Dead on Time - Collection Set [Episodes 18-23] (2005) — Original characters — 5 exemplaires
Inspector Morse 27: The Day of the Devil [Videorecording] — Original characters — 5 exemplaires
Inspector Morse: Service Of All The Dead/The Wolvercote Tongue (2019) — Original Story — 3 exemplaires
The Jewel That Was Ours (Mystery) - Intermediate 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Dexter, Norman Colin
- Date de naissance
- 1930-09-29
- Date de décès
- 2017-03-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Études
- Bluecoat Junior School
Stamford School
University of Cambridge (Christ's College) - Professions
- 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 - Organisations
- Crime Writers' Association
- Prix et distinctions
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 1997
- Courte biographie
- 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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- Œuvres
- 113
- Aussi par
- 57
- Membres
- 17,139
- Popularité
- #1,297
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 343
- ISBN
- 802
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 45