Order of Colin Watson Books

Colin Watson was a British author of detective fiction, renowned for his characters Inspector Purbright and Lucilla Teatime. He also wrote the Flaxborough series, set in a fictional small town in England, with four of those novels adapted by the BBC under the title Murder Most English. Born in 1920 in Croydon, Surrey, Watson later worked as a journalist in Lincolnshire, drawing inspiration for many of his characters from people he encountered during that time. He is also notable for being the first author to sue the magazine Private Eye for libel, winning £750 in the process. Watson passed away in 1983 at the age of 62.