1. Inspector Morse books by Colin Dexter Dexter’s Inspector Morse books about a troubled detective is the most famous mystery series set in Oxford.
2. Books by Agatha Christie Winterbrook, the Wallingford house which has recently been put on sale for £2.75 million, is thought to be the model for the home of Miss Marple.
3. An Oxford Tragedy by J.C Masterman (1933) This is the book that is thought to have started the tradition of setting mystery novels in Oxford. It is set in the fictional St Thomas’ College it follows the mystery of a murdered academic, killed by the weapon that he had confiscated previously.
Enjoy a walk with a view of Oxford s dreaming spires
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CLIMBING tall buildings and leaving mementoes on top was once a favourite pastime for Oxford students. Bikes on the Bodleian Library’s 100ft pinnacle and numerous college roofs, dustbins above Queen’s College, and a naked woman’s dummy on top of Brasenose College. These were just some of the high jinks undergraduates of yesteryear perpetrated and which we have featured in Memory Lane. Now other ‘feats’ has been revealed, in letters John Kendall Thomas, known as Ken, a chemistry student at Balliol College, wrote to his parents from 1935 to 1940. On May 9, 1937, dons awoke to find a Woolworth’s flag flying on the pinnacle of the Radcliffe Camera, 160ft from the ground.
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Director, Simon Center for American Studies
Joseph is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Perhaps only Tolkien, with his immense intelligence and creativity, could have persuaded Lewis that his reason and imagination might become allies in the act of faith. Tinnakorn Jorruang / EyeEm / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
By the beginning of the 20th century, it seemed that science had consigned the doctrine of the resurrection to the realm of wish fulfillment.
The pagan stories, Tolkien insisted, are God expressing himself through the minds of poets: They are “splintered fragments” of a much greater story.