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Colin Watson

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 31 1920

Died: 1616 01 19831983

Colin Watson was educated at the Whitgift School in South Croydon, London. During his career as a journalist he worked in London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was a leader-writer for Kemsley Newspapers.

His book Hopjoy Was Here received the Silver Dagger Award. He was married, with three children, and lived in Lincolnshire. After retiring from journalism he designed silver jewellery.

As well as a series of humorous detective novels set in the imaginary town of Flaxborough, featuring Inspector Purbright, Watson also wrote and later revised a study of detective stories and thrillers called Snobbery with Violence.

Colin Watson

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 31 1920

Died: 1616 01 19831983

Colin Watson was educated at the Whitgift School in South Croydon, London. During his career as a journalist he worked in London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was a leader-writer for Kemsley Newspapers.

His book Hopjoy Was Here received the Silver Dagger Award. He was married, with three children, and lived in Lincolnshire. After retiring from journalism he designed silver jewellery.

As well as a series of humorous detective novels set in the imaginary town of Flaxborough, featuring Inspector Purbright, Watson also wrote and later revised a study of detective stories and thrillers called Snobbery with Violence.

Books from Colin Watson

Coffin, Scarcely Used

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Hopjoy Was Here

Lonelyheart 4122

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Charity Ends at Home

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Flaxborough Crab

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby?

Broomsticks Over Flaxborough

The Naked Nuns

Plaster Sinners

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Just What the Doctor Ordered (Flaxborough, #6)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Charity Ends at Home (Flaxborough, #5)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Kissing covens (Red mask mystery)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Blue Murder (Flaxborough, #10)

4.2/5 ( ratings)

One Man's Meat

4.2/5 ( ratings)

One Man's Meat

4.2/5 ( ratings)

How to Feel Good Naked in 26 Days: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Reveal Your True Body Within

4.2/5 ( ratings)

GNU GRUB Reference Manual

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The GNU GRUB Manual: The GRand Unified Bootloader, Version 2.02

4.2/5 ( ratings)