Colin Watson (writer)

Colin Watson ( born 1 February 1920 in Croydon, Surrey; † 17 January 1983) was an English writer of detective novels.

Life

Watson worked for several years as a journalist ( and Others in Boston ( Lincolnshire ) and London), before he could establish himself as a freelance writer. In 1958, he was with his first crime novel successful debut and from then on remained true to this genre.

Watson invented inter alia ' Inspector Purbright ", the result obtained in the fictional town Flaxborough. His Flaxborough series established his reputation as a writer and a few were from the BBC for television - filmed - in the series Murder most English. With his work " Snobbery with violence" he sat apart in a very ironic way with the works of his colleagues Agatha Christie, Edward Phillips Oppenheim, Dorothy L. Sayers and Edgar Wallace.

Works (selection)

• Flaxborough series

• The Puritan. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1966.
• Snobbery with violence. English crime stories and Their audience. Methuen, London, 1987, ISBN 0-413-14260-4.

Films

• Ronald Wilson (director): Murder most English - The Flaxborough chronicles. Great Britain 1977