Historical version 3 of Inspector Morse (view current version)
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is the fictional hero of a series of detective novels by [Colin Dexter]?. He was an officer in the [Thames Valley Police]? CID. The novels were adapted into a successful TV series, with John Thaw taking the lead role. If you go to the police station on [St Aldates']?, you'll see a sign in the window above the vehicle entry bay purporting to be his office.
Morse dies in the last of Dexter's novels, The Remorseful Day, published in 2000.