Colin Dexter RIP

AmexRuislip

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Ruislip

• Mar 21, 2017

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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?

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Sussex by the Sea

• Mar 21, 2017

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

 

Mackenzie

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• Mar 21, 2017

• #3

Just read all his Morse books, they were great.

 

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pearl

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Behind My Eyes

• Mar 21, 2017

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quite like Endeavour (on TV)

 

studio150

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On the Border

• Mar 21, 2017

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A master detective writer, RIP

 

DJ NOBO

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• Mar 21, 2017

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Mackenzie said:

Just read all his Morse books, they were great.

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Any particular recommendations?

 

Mackenzie

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• Mar 21, 2017

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Dale Jasper said:

Any particular recommendations?

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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

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• Mar 21, 2017

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Badly indict explorer (5,6,3)

 

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• Mar 21, 2017

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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.

 

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soistes

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• Mar 21, 2017

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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.

 

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Greg Bobkin

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• Mar 21, 2017

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

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Tony Towner's Fridge

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• Mar 22, 2017

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

Sadly missed..

TNBA

TTF

 

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• Mar 22, 2017

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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