{"id":6073,"date":"2012-03-20T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2012-03-20T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:53:10","slug":"not-a-perfect-crime-by-colin-dextor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6073","title":{"rendered":"Not A Perfect Crime by Colin Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032003.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Dextor\" \/><br \/>\nMark from Mostly Books picked up Colin Dexter from his house, and was regailed with witty stories in the car as he drove him to Abingdon. The stories&nbsp;continued on the stage at St Helen&#8217;s and Katherine School Hall&nbsp;before an audience who had come to hear&nbsp;an informal talk entitled &#8216;A Perfect Crime&#8217; by the author of the Inspector Morse murder mystery stories.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032002.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Dextor\" \/><br \/>\nBut when after some chat Mark tried to guide the conversation towards the perfect crime, Colin changed the subject. Instead he read the worse letter he had ever received, followed by the best.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032005.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Dextor\" \/><br \/>\nColin Dexter&nbsp;used to teach Greek and Latin at a school in Leicester but was forced to give up the profession he loved by loss of hearing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12032004.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Dextor\" \/><br \/>\nThe secret to a perfect crime is to&nbsp;leave no clues &#8211; something incompatible with writing murder mysteries where the purpose is to leave a trail of clues and create a book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark from Mostly Books picked up Colin Dexter from his house, and was regailed with witty stories in the car as he drove him to Abingdon. The stories&nbsp;continued on the stage at St Helen&#8217;s and Katherine School Hall&nbsp;before an audience who had come to hear&nbsp;an informal talk entitled &#8216;A Perfect Crime&#8217; by the author of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}