- Fiction, Inspector Morse (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction in English
"The sweet countenance of Reason greeted Morse serenely when he woke, and told him that it would be no bad idea to have a quiet look at the problem itself before galloping off to a solution.
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Colin Dexter
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Dell Publishing Company, Chivers Word for Word Audio Books, Ivy Books
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781447299196
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“Limply the Reverend Lionel Lawson shook the last smoothly gloved hand, the slim hand of Mrs. Emily Walsh-Atkins, and he knew that the pews in the old church behind him were now empty.”
British author best known for the Inspector Morse mystery novels. Colin Dexter (born September 29, 1930, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England—died March 21, 2017, Oxford) was a British author who wrote 13 acclaimed mystery novels featuring the erudite and curmudgeonly Chief Inspector Morse; the novels inspired the popular British television series Inspector Morse (1987–2000) and two spin-off series. Dexter earned (1953) a bachelor’s degree and (1958) a master’s degree in classics from Christ’s College, Cambridge. He taught classics at secondary schools until his growing deafness made that impossible, and thereafter (1966–88) he worked at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, wh
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