Description
| Product ID: | 9781509885107 |
| Product Form: | CD-Audio |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Inspector Morse Mysteries |
| Title: | The Wench is Dead |
| Authors: | Author: Colin Dexter |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed. <p><b><i>The Wench is Dead </i></b><b>is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series featuring Inspector Morse.</b><br><br><i>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 . . .</i><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 . . .<br><br><i>The Wench is Dead</i> is followed by the ninth Inspector Morse book, <i>The Jewel That Was Ours</i>.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Digital Audio |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-03 |
