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    Colin Dexter

    Colin Dexter won many awards for his novels including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin's thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He lived in Oxford until his death in 2017.

    Books by Colin Dexter

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      The Secret of Annexe 3
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      The Wench is Dead
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      The Jewel That Was Ours
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      The Way Through the Woods
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      The Daughters of Cain
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      Death is Now My Neighbour
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      The Remorseful Day
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      Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
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      Last Bus to Woodstock
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      The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
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      Service of All the Dead
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      The Dead of Jericho
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      The Riddle of the Third Mile
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      The Secret of Annexe 3

    Series by Colin Dexter

    • Inspector Morse Mysteries

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