{"product_id":"9781035005468","title":"The Wench is Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eChief Inspector Morse investigates a long-solved Victorian murder from his hospital bed in the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5:30am on Wednesday, June 22, 1859.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt around 10:15am 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wench is Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is followed by the ninth \u003ci\u003eInspector Morse\u003c\/i\u003e mystery, \u003ci\u003eThe Jewel That Was Ours.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Colin Dexter","offers":[{"title":"Pan Macmillan |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-08-06","offer_id":45250457174271,"sku":"9781035005468","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_58f38a19-b0ca-4a09-b206-ec1fd33a21d9.jpg?v=1713382162","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781035005468","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}