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Endeavour Morse

Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption, with Lewis (right) as played by Kevin Whately.
First appearance Last Bus to Woodstock, 1975
Last appearance The Remorseful Day, 2000
Created by Colin Dexter
Portrayed by John Thaw
Episode count 33
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Gender Male
Occupation Police Detective
Title Detective Chief Inspector
Nationality English
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Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33 episode television series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987–2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw. Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English Crime writer, known John Edward Thaw CBE ( 3 January, 1942 &ndash 21 February, 2002) was an English Actor, who made his début Detective fiction is a branch of Crime fiction in which a Detective (or detectives either professional or amateur investigate a crime usually Murder The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English Crime writer, known Inspector Morse is a television series based on Colin Dexter ’s popular novels about Chief Inspector Morse. John Edward Thaw CBE ( 3 January, 1942 &ndash 21 February, 2002) was an English Actor, who made his début Morse is a senior CID (Criminal Investigation Department) officer with the Thames Valley Police in Oxford, England. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police Thames Valley Police is one of the largest Home Office Police services in England and the largest non- metropolitan one covering 2200 sq mi (5700 Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire,

Contents

Novels

The Inspector Morse novels have been successful in both book and television serial form. The stories are set primarily in Oxford. With an old Mark 2 Jaguar car (originally a Lancia), a thirst for beer, intellectual snobbery and a penchant for Wagner, Morse presents a likeable persona despite his sullen temperament. The Jaguar Mark 2 (also known as Mk2 Mk 2 or MkII is a medium sized saloon car built during the 1950s and 1960s by the Jaguar company in Coventry England Lancia Automobiles SpA is an Italian Automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed Alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea

Morse dislikes spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, demonstrated by the fact that in every personal or private document written to him he manages to point out at least one spelling mistake. His approach to crime-solving, he asserts frequently, is deductive and one of his key tenets is that 'the last person to see the victim alive was the murderer'. Dexter is a fan of cryptic crosswords, and Morse is named after champion solver Sir Jeremy Morse, one of Dexter's arch-rivals as a clue-writer in the crossword world. Cryptic crosswords are crossword puzzles of a special type one in which each clue is a word puzzle in and of itself Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse (* December 10 1928) known as Sir Jeremy Morse, was Chancellor of the University of Bristol between In every novel (except the first, Last Bus to Woodstock) the surname of the killer is taken from those of winners of the weekly Azed solving competition in The Observer. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The [1] Indeed, for a while, Dexter wrote a weekly "How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords" column in the Observer's sister paper The Guardian. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. [2]

Morse's first name, "Endeavour", was kept a secret until the end of Death is Now My Neighbour (traditionally Morse claimed that he should be called 'Morse' or jokingly that his first name was 'Inspector'). In the series it is noted that his reticence about his "Christian" name led to a public school (Stamford School) nickname of "Pagan". Stamford School is an English public school situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. The origin of his name is the vessel HM Bark Endeavour, as Morse's mother was a Quaker (Quakers have a tradition of "virtue names") and his father was a fan of Captain James Cook. Construction The Endeavour was originally a merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, launched in June 1764 from the coal and whaling port of Whitby in Captain James Cook FRS RN ( – 14 February 1779) was an English Explorer, Navigator and

Morse is an interesting and complex character to assess from a social and political viewpoint. In sharp juxtaposition to the Welsh (altered to northern, Geordie, in the TV series) working class background of his assistant, Lewis (named for another rival clue-writer, Mrs.  B. Lewis), Morse is ostensibly the embodiment of white, male, upper-middle-class Englishness, with a set of prejudices and assumptions to match. He is, for example, frequently portrayed in the act of patronising women characters to the extent that some feminist critics have argued that Morse is a misogynist. Misogyny (mɪˈsɒdʒɪni is hatred (or contemptof women Misogyny is parallel to Misandry — the hatred of men [3] Morse's relationships with authority, the establishment, bastions of power and the status quo are markedly ambiguous.

Although details of Morse's career are deliberately kept vague, it is hinted that as a schoolboy he won a scholarship to study at St John's College, Oxford. __FORCETOC__ St John's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He lost the scholarship as the result of poor academic performance, which in turn resulted from a failed love affair (mentioned in the series at the end of The Last Enemy). The Last Enemy, published in America as Falling Through Space, is an autobiographical book by Spitfire pilot Richard Hillary Forced to leave the University he entered the Army, and on leaving it, joined the Police. He often reflects on renowned scholars (such as A. E. Housman) who, like himself, failed to get academic degrees from Oxford. Alfred Edward Housman (ˈhaʊsmən 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 usually known as A

The novels in the series are:

Inspector Morse also appears in several stories in Dexter's short story collection, Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (1993, expanded edition 1994). Last Bus to Woodstock is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the first of thirteen novels in his Inspector Morse series The Dead of Jericho is a work of English Detective fiction by Colin Dexter, as part of the Inspector Morse series

Dexter killed Morse in his last book, The Remorseful Day. Morse dies in a hospital bed from complications of his neglected type 2 diabetes. Diabetes mellitus type 2 or Type 2 Diabetes (formerly called non - Insulin -dependent Diabetes mellitus (NIDDM or adult-onset diabetes is a metabolic

Television

Main article: Inspector Morse (TV series)

The Inspector Morse novels were made into a TV series (also called Inspector Morse) for the British TV channel ITV. Inspector Morse is a television series based on Colin Dexter ’s popular novels about Chief Inspector Morse. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent The series was made by Zenith Productions for Central (a company later acquired by Carlton) and comprises 33 two-hour episodes (100 minutes excluding commercials) — twenty more episodes than there are novels — produced between 1987 and 2000. Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central and now legally ITV Central Ltd, is the British Independent Television contractor Carlton Television is the British ITV franchisee for London and parts of the surrounding counties from 925am every Monday to 5 The final episode was adapted from the final novel.

Radio

An occasional BBC Radio 4 series (for the Saturday Play) was made starring the voices of John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis. John Shrapnel (born April 27, 1942) As a stage actor he was a member of the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Robert Glenister (born 11 March 1960) is an English Actor who is best known for his role in the 2004 British TV series Hustle The series was written by Guy Meredith and directed by Ned Chaillet. Episodes included: "The Wench is Dead" (28 March 1992); "Last Seen Wearing" (28 May 1994); and "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn" (10 February 1996).

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ Crowther, Jonathan. Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English Crime writer, known Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Inspector Lewis (TV series Detective Inspector Robert "Robbie" Lewis is a Fictional character best known as the sidekick in the Inspector Morse Chief Superintendent Strange is a key character in the Inspector Morse television series A–Z of Crosswords: Insights into the Top Setters and their Puzzles. London: Collins. 2006. ISBN 0007229239
  2. ^ "How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords" - The Guardian
  3. ^ e. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. g. Review: Death Is Now My Neighbour by Val McDermid. Val McDermid (born June 4, 1955) is a Scottish Crime writer. Biography McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife

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