{"product_id":"9781447299233","title":"The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter","description":"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 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 . . .   The Wench is Dead is followed by the ninth Inspector Morse book, The Jewel That Was Ours.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204434165938,"sku":"9781447299233","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/products\/9781447299233.jpg?v=1690640712","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781447299233","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}