The Wench is Dead

Resumen del libro

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 . .

. Early in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1859, the body of Joanna Franks was found floating at Duke's Cut along the Oxford Canal an event which led to the trial and hanging of two suspected murderers. A hundred and thirty years later Chief Inspector Morse is bedbound and recovering from a perforated ulcer at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital when he is handed an old book to read, one that recounts the trial of a murder aboard the Barbara Bray canal boat: the murder of Joanna Franks.

Investigating the account of the trial, Morse begins to question whether the two men hanged were truly guilty and sets out to prove his suspicions from the confines of his hospital bed . . .

The Wench is Dead is followed by the ninth Inspector Morse book, The Jewel That Was Ours.

Biografía del autor

Colin Dexter (Stamford, 1930x{0026} x02009;-x{0026} x02009;Oxford, 2017) ganador en dos ocasiones del prestigioso premio Gold Dagger de la Crime Writers Association, escribió numerosas novelas y relatos protagonizados por Endeavour Morse, inspector de la policía de Oxford. Desde su estreno en 2012, la serie basada en el personaje ha ido convirtiéndose, temporada tras temporada, en uno de los grandes éxitos recientes de crítica y público de la televisión británica.