Colin Watson
1920-1983
 

Colin Watson spent most of his life in Lincolnshire. He is the creator of 'Walter Purbright', a police inspector in Flaxborough. His novels have been televised under the title Murder Most English.

 

Titles and year of publication:  

 1) Coffin, Scarcely Used  1958
 2) Bump in the Night  1960
 3) Hopjoy Was Here  1962
 4) The Puritan  1966
 5) Lonelyheart 4122  1967
 6) Charity Ends at Home  1968
 7) The Flaxborough Crab (US Title: Just What the Doctor Ordered [1969])  1969
 8) Broomsticks Over Flaxborough (US Title: Kissing Covens [1972])  1972
 9) The Naked Nuns (US Title: Six Nuns and a Shotgun [1975])  1975
10) One Man's Meat (US Title: It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog [1977])  1977
11) Blue Murder  1979
12) Plaster Sinners  1980
13) Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby?  1982

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