British crime author Colin Dexter, finest recognized for his widespread Inspector Morse character, died on Tuesday on the age of 86, his writer mentioned in an announcement.

"With immense sadness, Macmillan announces the death of Colin Dexter who died peacefully at his home in Oxford this morning," the assertion learn.

Dexter was born in 1930 in Lincolnshire, jap England, and studied classics at Cambridge College.

After a short stint in instructing, he moved within the 1960s to Oxford, which supplied the setting for the 13 Morse novels he revealed between 1975 and 1999.

He was additionally actively concerned within the long-running Inspector Morse tv present and its two spin-offs Lewis and Endeavour, even making a number of cameo appearances.

In 2000, Dexter was given an honour by Queen Elizabeth II, for providers to literature.

His most up-to-date editor at Macmillan, Maria Rejt, paid tribute saying: "His loyalty, modesty and self-deprecating humour gave pleasure to many.

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