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Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930) is an English crime writer known for his Inspector Morse novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000. ==Early life and career== Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and was educated at Stamford School, a boys' public school. After completing his national service with the Royal Corps of Signals, he read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953 and receiving an honorary master's degree in 1958. In 1954, he started his teaching career in the East Midlands, becoming assistant Classics master at Wyggeston School, Leicester. A post at Loughborough Grammar School followed before he took up the position of senior Classics teacher at Corby Grammar School, Northamptonshire, in 1959. In 1956 he married Dorothy Cooper, and they had a son and a daughter. In 1966, he was forced by the onset of deafness to retire from teaching and took up the post of senior assistant secretary at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) in Oxford, a job he held until his retirement in 1988.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with Colin Dexter )〕 Dexter featured prominently in the BBC programme ''How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword'' as part of the ''Time Shift'' series broadcast in November 2008, in which he recounted some of the crossword clues solved by Morse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colin Dexter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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