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The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime and Thrillers
While recovering in hospital, Inspector Morse comes across an account of the investigation into a murder from 1849, a crime for which two people were hanged. When he is discharged he can prove that they were convicted wrongly.
The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
Category: Fiction
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award, The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse. That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse ...Show more
The Wench is Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery (Inspector Morse #8) by Colin Dexter
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Morse Mysteries
<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> The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at ...Show more