The Morse Code

As with the cases of Sherlock Holmes, a 4-letter code has been assigned to the various Colin Dexter stories and television adaptations in the attempt to save having to write titles out in full every time they appear in text. Those given below should by no means be regarded as the definitive version and any comments would be most welcome from members. As will be seen, in general the first 4 letters of a title are used, ignoring ‘the’ and the words ‘dead of’, ‘death of’ and ‘last’ which appear multiple times in the titles.

Absolute Conviction - ABSO

Cherubim And Seraphim - CHER

Daughters Of Cain - DAUG

Day Of The Devil - DEVI

Dead Of Jericho - JERI

Dead On Time - TIME

Deadly Slumber - SLUM

Death Is Now My Neighbour - NEIG

Death Of The Self - SELF

Deceived By Flight - DECE

Driven To Distraction - DRIV

Fat Chance - FATC

Ghost In The Machine - GHOS

Greeks Bearing Gifts - GREE

Happy Families - HAPP

Infernal Serpent - INFE

Jewel That Was Ours- JEWE

Last Bus To Woodstock - LBUS

Last Enemy - LENE

Last Seen Wearing - LSEE

Morse’s Greatest Mystery - MORS

Masonic Mysteries - MASO

Promised Land - PROM

Riddle Of The Third Mile - RIDD

Second Time Around - SECO

Secret Of Bay 5B - SECR

Service Of All The Dead - SERV

Settling Of The Sun - SETT

Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn - SILE

Sins Of The Fathers - SINS

Twilight Of The Gods - TWIL

Way Through The Woods - WAYT

Wench Is Dead - WENC

Who Killed Harry Field? - WHOK

Wolvercote Tongue - WOLV