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This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.

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Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body — a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body."

Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter

Born: September 29, 1930

Died: March 21, 2017 (aged 86)

Bio: Norman Colin Dexter, better known as Colin Dexter, 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.

Known for:

Last Bus to Woodstock (1975)
The Remorseful Day (1999)
The Dead of Jericho (1981)
The Way Through the Woods (1992)
The Wench Is Dead (1989)

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