There were thirteen novels in the Morse series, four of which won awards. Once he found a winning character and setting, Dexter resigned from his teaching post and set about writing Morse novels for a living. Over the next 18 months, he carried on writing the book in longhand, and had it typed up – as he did all his future novels. Thoroughly miserable and bored, he read both the detective novels in their holiday accommodation, and decided that they were not much good and thought he could do better. The first of the Morse novels, Last Bus To Woodstock (1975), was written by Dexter because with his wife Dorothy and children, he was on holiday in North Wales at a time when the rain never stopped. It starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse, with Kevin Whately as his assistant Sergeant Lewis. My favourite detective character is Inspector Morse, which was a popular television series based on the novels by Colin Dexter. The skills of a good detective mirror some of those of an entrepreneur – active listening, critical thinking, problem solving, and good observation skills, combined with astuteness and intuition to develop insights quickly by piecing together myriad pieces of information to see a pattern or picture. The reader is driven by quests for conclusive information and happy endings. Crime novels puts puzzle-solving at the centre of everything, stocking up on clues but never quite giving all the answers. You know that the villain will be apprehended by the time you reach the last page, the detective will have solved the mystery, and all will be right with the world.īut it’s the excitement between the first page in the last and trying to work out who the bad guy is, or how they will be stopped, before the detective does. Crime novels put the balance back in life – the bad guys get their comeuppance and the good guys win after solving the puzzle. To this day, I’m unable to walk past a second-hand bookshop. Latterly the Ian Rankin novels around the Inspector Rebus character are my must-reads. On top of that, every time I visited a jumble sale I’d be stocking up my bookshelf, devouring the likes of PD James and Raymond Chandler. By the time I was in my early teens, I was working my way through the Sherlock Holmes stories and my mum’s collection of Dick Francis books, adding to those each birthday and Christmas when I received book tokens. When I read my first Enid Blyton Famous Five mystery at six years old I was hooked on crime and detective novels.
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