The Wench Is Dead - Hardcover

Dexter, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312044445 ISBN 13: 9780312044442

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Despite being bedridden with an ulcer, the idiosyncratic Inspector Morse is determined to solve a century-old murder for which two innocent men were hanged

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From the Inside Flap:

It is only to entertain himself in the hospital that the impatient Inspector Morse opens the little book called Murder on the Oxford Canal. But so fascinating is the story it tells--of the notorious 1859 murder of Joanna Franks aboard the canal boat Barbara Bray--that not even Morse's attractive nurses can distract him from it. Was Joanna really raped and murdered by fellow passengers? Morse believes the men hanged for the crime were innocent. Now, in one of the most dazzling investigations of his career, Morse sets out to piece together the shattered past, hoping to expose the shocking truth about the Barbara Bray--and a beautiful wench who is journeying towards her death.

From the Back Cover:

"INSPECTOR MORSE . . . IS A THOROUGHLY CONVINCING DETECTIVE, AND A VERY HUMAN ONE TOO."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Dexter's books are brilliantly clever concoctions, the prose equivalents of the crosswords his Inspector Morse is hooked on. The author blends elements of the classic puzzle-mystery, the police procedural, and a character saga to create a type of detective novel all his own."
--The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0312044445
• ISBN 13: 9780312044442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200