The Wench Is Dead
by:
Colin Dexter
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PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781447299233
- Categories Business and Economics, BX, BXOS, Colin Dexter, F CTM, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Personal Development, RM 10 - RM 19.99
- Author(s) Colin Dexter
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Pages 256
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 19.7cm x 1.9cm x 13cm
- Weight 0.19 kg
product description
Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed.
The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks . . .
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859.
At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.
As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and the trial that followed Joanna Franks' death . . . and becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent . . .
The Wench is Dead is followed by the ninth Inspector Morse book, The Jewel That Was Ours.
