Colin Watson
Born
in Croydon, Surrey, The United Kingdom
February 01, 1920
Died
January 17, 1983
Genre
Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough, #1)
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1958
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Bump in the Night (Flaxborough, #2)
20 editions
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1960
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Hopjoy Was Here (Flaxborough, #3)
2 editions
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1962
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Lonelyheart 4122 (Flaxborough, #4)
26 editions
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1967
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Charity Ends at Home (Flaxborough, #5)
15 editions
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1968
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The Flaxborough Crab (Flaxborough, #6)
20 editions
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1969
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Whatever's Been Going on at Mumblesby? (Flaxborough, #12)
13 editions
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1982
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Broomsticks Over Flaxborough (Flaxborough, #7)
11 editions
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1972
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The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8)
19 editions
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1975
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Plaster Sinners (Flaxborough, #11)
11 editions
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1980
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“Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.”
― Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
― Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.”
― Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
― Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
“To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.”
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