The Wench is Dead
by Colin Dexter | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330313363 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330313363 Global Overview for this book
Registered by laura0141 of Glasgow, Scotland United Kingdom on 9/19/2006
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'That night he dreamed in Technicolour. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings, and he could even recall her lavender-hued underclothing. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren look the name of one Joanna Franks, provocatively walking towards Duke's Cut ...'
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30am on Wednesday 21st June 1859.
At around 1015am on a Friday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse (though very much alive) was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a peforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.
As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and trial whic h followed Joanna Franks' death ...
... and becomes convinced that the two men who were hanged for the murder of Joanna Franks were innocent ...
Offered as BookRing.
'That night he dreamed in Technicolour. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings, and he could even recall her lavender-hued underclothing. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren look the name of one Joanna Franks, provocatively walking towards Duke's Cut ...'
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30am on Wednesday 21st June 1859.
At around 1015am on a Friday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse (though very much alive) was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a peforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.
As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and trial whic h followed Joanna Franks' death ...
... and becomes convinced that the two men who were hanged for the murder of Joanna Franks were innocent ...
Offered as BookRing.
No takers for ring - available.
Journal Entry 3 by laura0141 at Newton Mearns Shopping Centre in Newton Mearns, Scotland United Kingdom on Sunday, January 7, 2007
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