The Wench is Dead
$20.69
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award, The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter’s Oxford-set detective series, as portrayed by John Thaw in ITV’s 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 …
Early in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1859, the body of Joanna Franks was fou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005468 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005468 |
| Author: | Colin Dexter |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Pan Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Inspector Morse Mysteries |
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Critics Review
Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is complete * Sunday Times *No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin Dexter * The Guardian *Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectives * The Times *A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectives – P. D. James * Sunday Telegraph *The writing is highly intelligent, the atmosphere melancholy, the effect haunting * Daily Telegraph *The triumph is the character of Morse * Times Literary Supplement *Colin Dexter’s superior crime-craft is enough to make lesser practitioners sick with envy * Oxford Times *[Morse is] the most prickly, conceited and genuinely brilliant detective since Hercule Poirot * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter won many awards for his novels, including the CWA Gold Dagger and Silver Dagger awards. In 1997 he was presented with the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding services to crime literature. Colin’s thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day, was published in 1999. He died in 2017 at his home in Oxford.
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