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Diogenes Small is a fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

created by the English

England

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crime

Crime

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writer

Writer

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Colin Dexter

Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, is an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as a television series from 1987 to 2000.-Early life and career:...

in his Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID officer with the Thames Valley...

series of novels. The character, the supposed author

Author

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of numerous historical and other works, does not appear in the novels although Dexter has used his quotations.

One of the distinctive features of Dexter's Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse

novels is the use of quotations as chapter headings, which began in the second novel in the series, Last Seen Wearing
Last Seen Wearing (Dexter novel)
Last Seen Wearing is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the second novel in Inspector Morse series.-Synopsis:A man, later known to be Donald Phillipson, goes for an interview in Oxford to be headmaster of a school, later known to be the Roger Bacon Comprehensive School in Oxford. At the bus stop a...

(1976); then in the fourth, Service of All the Dead
Service of All the Dead
Service of All the Dead is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the fourth novel in Inspector Morse series.This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the...

(1979); and in the sixth, The Riddle of the Third Mile
The Riddle of the Third Mile
The Riddle of the Third Mile is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the sixth novel in Inspector Morse series.Inspector Morse is not sure what to make of the truncated body found dumped in the Oxford Canal, but he suspects it may be all that's left of an elderly Oxford don last seen boarding the London...

(1983) onwards.