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The Wench is Dead

By: Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Kevin Whately
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The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

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.

© Colin Dexter; (P) Macmillan Publishers Ltd Historical Mystery Police Procedurals Traditional Detectives
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I have read the book but listening to Kevin Whately made so much better. He sounds like Morse! And Lewis of course. I highly recommend this book.

Loved it!!

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what a fun story and Kevin plays sgt. Lewis in the TV show. so his narration is amazing.

very fun and great reading

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