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Colin Dexter
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 29 September 1930
- Died
- 21 March 2017
- Works
- 85
Top works
- The Way Through the Woods
- Last bus to Woodstock
- Death Is Now My Neighbour
- Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · United Kingdom, England, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Known for
- Drama Trails2010
- The Mystery of Morse — Himself1993
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2017
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 186
- Total plays
- 10,999
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Colin+Dexter">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,632x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,894x
- RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,968x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,790x
- Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias
· 1994 · cited 14,438x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Norman Colin Dexter , ( 1930-09-29 ) 29 September 1930, Stamford, Lincolnshire , England
- Died
- 21 March 2017 (2017-03-21) (aged 86), Oxford , England
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- Christ's College, Cambridge
- Genre
- Crime fiction
- Notable works
- Inspector Morse series (1975–1999)
- Spouse
- Dorothy Cooper ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Norman Colin Dexter (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. His characters have spawned a sequel series, Lewis, from 2006 to 2015, and a prequel series, Endeavour, from 2012 to 2023. He also set crosswords for The Oxford Times.
Early life and career
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colin Dexter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.