Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long-solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed in the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.
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 5:30am on Wednesday, June 22, 1859.
At around 10:15am 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 mystery, The Jewel That Was Ours.
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 5:30am on Wednesday, June 22, 1859.
At around 10:15am 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 mystery, The Jewel That Was Ours.
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