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The Wench Is Dead
- Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 8
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- 30-10-2021
A satisfying historical mystery
I enjoyed the hospital setting which rang true to an old hospital trained nurse. The story unfolds at a good pace. The narrator has a beautiful voice and does a convincing job of presenting Morse and Lewis. Another good story.
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