Order of Colin Dexter Books
Colin Dexter is an English author of crime fiction, featuring his main character Inspector Morse. Dexter began writing on a family holiday in North Wales when it rained on a Saturday. With nothing else to do, Dexter sat down at the kitchen table and started writing a detective novel. Before becoming a published author, Dexter taught and worked as a secretary at Oxford.
Colin Dexter made his literary debut at 1975 with his first Inspector Morse novel, Last Bus to Woodstock. Below is a list of Colin Dexter’s books in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):
Publication Order of Inspector Morse Books
Last Bus to Woodstock | (1975) | |
Last Seen Wearing | (1976) | |
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn | (1977) | |
Service of All the Dead | (1979) | |
The Dead of Jericho | (1981) | |
The Riddle of the Third Mile | (1983) | |
The Secret of Annexe 3 | (1986) | |
The Wench Is Dead | (1989) | |
The Jewel That Was Ours | (1989) | |
The Way Through The Woods | (1992) | |
The Daughters of Cain | (1994) | |
Death Is Now My Neighbor | (1996) | |
The Remorseful Day | (1999) |
Publication Order of Inspector Morse Collections
Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories | (1993) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Evans Tries an O-Level | (1993) | |
The Other Half | (2015) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Chambers Morse Crosswords | (2006) | |
Cracking Cryptic Crosswords | (2009) |
Publication Order of Mysterious Profiles Books
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike | (2022) | |
Jack Taylor | (2022) | |
Jack Reacher | (2022) | |
Charlie Parker | (2022) | |
Hieronymus Bosch | (2022) | |
Lincoln Rhyme | (2022) | |
Alex Delaware | (2022) | |
Tess Monaghan | (2022) | |
Charlie Resnick | (2022) | |
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus | (2022) | |
Inspector Morse | (2022) | |
Dismas Hardy | (2022) | |
Bob Lee Swagger | (2022) | |
Aloysius X. L. Pendergast | (2022) | |
Lou Boldt | (2022) | |
Spenser | (2022) | |
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt | (2022) | |
John Rebus | (2022) | |
Mallory | (2022) | |
Jane Whitefield | (2022) | |
Ian Rutledge: A Mysterious Profile | (2022) | |
Amos Walker | (2022) | |
Precious Ramotswe | (2022) | |
Maisie Dobbs | (2022) | |
The Lincoln Lawyer | (2022) | |
Ben Kincaid | (2023) | |
Repairman Jack | (2023) | |
Peter Diamond | (2024) | |
Nathan Heller | (2024) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Winter’s Crimes 9 | (1977) | |
Crime Story Collection | (2000) | |
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction | (2002) | |
The Detection Collection | (2005) | |
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 | (2010) |