Wench Is Dead (Audio book)

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 22 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 trial that followed Joanna Franks' death, and soon becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent . . .
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award for Best Crime Novel of the Year
'Dexterously ingenious' Guardian
'Morse solves a 130-year-old mystery in delightful style' Mail on Sunday

About the author

Colin Dexter won many awards for his novels including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin's thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He lived in Oxford until his death in 2017.

Summary

Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed.

Foreword

Chief Inspector Morse investigates a long solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed.

Product details

• Authors: COLIN DECTER, Colin Dexter
• Assisted by: Samuel West (Reader / Narrator), West Samuel (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781509885107
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8510-7
• Series: INSPECTOR MORSE 08; Inspector Morse Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Oxford, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Oxfordshire, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: police procedural, c 1980 to c 1989