Inspector Morse or Sherlock Holmes would find it hard to detect the crime.

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Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter said he was "shocked and ashamed" at proposals to close 20 of Oxfordshire County Council's 43 libraries.

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Cox also took time to appear on British television in this period, appearing in episodes of sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf and Inspector Morse.

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He also appeared in two episodes of "Inspector Morse".

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Mr Whiston also announced Caroline Quentin is to star in a new detective series for ITV1, which he hopes will follow in the footsteps other long-running crime dramas like Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse and A Touch Of Frost.

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Fictional crime tourists constitute an almost insignificant minority of visitors to guilty landscapes, even though the Inspector Morse tour attracts about 3500 tourists a year, Baantjer about the same number and Wallander tens of thousands (aside, in each city, from rogue, unaffiliated tourists).

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In our collective cultural imagination, however, Oxbridge means the dreaming spires - a kind of massive Bullingdon Club where rich undergraduates still flaunt their boaters and blazers, and dotty dons get sozzled every night on the college port (while hoping to avoid the Inspector Morse-style murders in the quad).

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