The wench is dead

Colin Dexter

Bantam

1991

194 páginas

6h 28m

ISBN-10: 0553291203

Confined to his hospital bed with a temperamental ulcer, an impatient Inspector Morse sees his slow recuperation as a tedious prison term at best. Until he cracks open a dusty tome, "Murder on the Oxford Canal" and from the pages of history uncoves a sensational case long forgotten. A young womanwas drowned in 1859, and, after a fleeting trial, two men were hanged for the misdeed. But from all that Morse can gather, they were wrongly accused of rape and murder - and died needlesly for a crime they did not commit. Now his hospital stay will have more than a touch of intrigue, as Inspector Morse intends to piece together the shattered past - and set the scales of justice to right.