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Title: The Wench Is Dead
Subtitle: Inspector Morse Mysteries, Book 8
Author: Colin Dexter
Narrator: Samuel West
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
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 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.
As 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....
Members Reviews:
Very, very interesting !
This is a wonderful book as I expected. I saw it on the tv long time ago and wished to read it. John Thaw did such a great job playing Morse that while reading, I always imagined him as the main character.
I like the plot, the humor, everything. Of course when solving a case you need some luck too, especially when it is that much cold.
I recommend to see this tv episode of inspector Morse after done reading, because they complement each other. The book has more information, and the tv episode follows the line well, using some director's freedom, but not dropping the ball. The tv version also paid some more attention to the shoes, mentioned so many times in the novel.
There was a nother book writen before on similar topic that was the inspiration behind "The wench is dead". I understand there was some difference in interpretation of the proof and events between that author and Colin Dexter. This appears in the novel when Morse reads that book and gets interested in the case. In the tv version those two positions are both given, as an actual debate between the author and Morse.
Couldn't put it down, even though I'd seen the TV version!
I bought and read this book to study Dexter's style, even though I'd seen the TV adaptation of this same story. I'd anticipated that I probably wouldn't read the whole book through, since I already knew the basic plot. However, I was so fascinated by the way in which Dexter weaves his story that I simply couldn't put it down! As someone who aspires to write fiction that spans multiple time periods, I was intrigued by the way in which Dexter contrives to have his present-day protagonist solve a nineteenth century crime. Some of the plot developments are perhaps a little optimistic, but it is fiction, after all! Dexter demonstrated with this novel that he could conjure up not only an authentic England of the late twentieth century, but also that of earlier times (and I say that as an expatriate Englishman). Certain of Dexter's writing preferences might not pass muster in amateur "Creative Writing" circles in the US: so I wonder who knows best?! I agree with the reviewer who complained about the weak title, but nobody should allow that minor issue to deter them from this riveting mystery.
Read Again
I was never sure about this book, there was something familiar here. Of course there was. I had read it before, a long time ago.