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Colin Watson

(1920 - 1982)

About Colin Watson

Colin Watson was a British writer of detective fiction and the creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the twelve 'Flaxborough' novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England.

Series

Flaxborough
Coffin, Scarcely Used (1958)
Bump in the Night (1960)
Hopjoy Was Here (1962)
Lonelyheart 4122 (1967)
Charity Ends at Home (1968)
Flaxborough Chronicle (1969)
The Flaxborough Crab (1969)
     aka Just What the Doctor Ordered
Broomsticks Over Flaxborough (1972)
     aka Kissing Covens
The Naked Nuns (1975)
     aka Six Nuns and a Shotgun
One Man's Meat (1975)
     aka It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
Blue Murder (1979)
Plaster Sinners (1980)
Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby? (1982)

Non fiction

Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories And Their Audience (1971)

Links to other websites

Colin Watson�s Funny Old World

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