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The Wench Is Dead

Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 8

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The Wench Is Dead

By: Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
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The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series featuring Inspector Morse.

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.

©2017 Colin Dexter (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio Cosy Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective

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still one of his best, miss his stories and character. rip Colin . brilliant book

brillant

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Loved this compelling book.
Beautifully written and narrated
Colin Dexter and Samuel West at their very best

Brilliant

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I loved this book.. I’ve got most of them .. Sam West brilliant as always but it was the story that really resonated with me.. something very very human about it .. I loved it

One of the BEST !

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I decided to listen to this, as the TV version is excellent. Sadly, the book, in my opinion is not. it's the third Morse novel I've listened to. I shall, in future, concentrate on the tv version.

As Slow As Narrow Boat

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