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The Wench is Dead

By Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
Unabridged — 5 hours, 44 minutes
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By Colin Dexter
Narrated by: Samuel West
Unabridged — 5 hours, 44 minutes
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The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series featuring Inspector Morse.

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 b...