Colin Watson (writer)
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Colin Watson (1920-1983) was a British writer of detective fiction, and creator of characters such as Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He is most famous for the Flaxborough novels, typified by their comic and dry wit and set in a fictional small town in England.
Works
- Coffin, Scarcely Used (1958)
- Bump in the Night (1960)
- Hopjoy Was Here (1962)
- Lonelyheart 4122 (1967)
- Charity Ends at Home (1968)
- The Flaxborough Crab (1969)
- Broomsticks over Flaxborough (1972)
- The Naked Nuns (1975)
- One Man's Meat (1977)
- Blue Murder (1979)
- Plaster Sinners (1980)
- Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby? (1982)
- The Puritan (1966)
- Snobbery with Violence (1971)
External links
- [Snobbery with violence], a website related to Colin Watson's works.
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