The College is known as being the setting for many literary works. C. P. Snow was inspired for his novel "The Masters" by the story of Mark Pattison, a fellow at Lincoln, whose enthusiastic hopes for Lincoln were frustrated by older, more conservative fellows of the college; Snow's story transposes the story to a Cambridge College. It has also been the setting for three episodes of "Inspector Morse". Recently, "Lewis" has used Turl Street in front of the College for filming. Lincoln College is the setting for much of the action in "Heresy" by S J Parris, a historical crime novel.