Gary Dexter is the author of The Oxford Despoiler, an acclaimed parody of Sherlock Holmes featuring the moustachioed sexologist Henry St. Liver and his parter Olive Salter ("A masterful, perfectly pitched, nuanced and fiendishly funny Victorian detective memoir" Erotic Review) and of All the Materials for a Midnight Feast, a novel described by the Sunday Telegraph as "one of the year’s most impressive debuts".
He has also written several well-received works of non-fiction, including Why Not Catch-21?, about which Nick Lezard wrote in the Guardian: "Dexter’s tone is consistently, and never irritatingly, droll. There are a few books that try to be funny about literature and don’t ever really get it right; Dexter always does."