{"product_id":"the-wench-is-dead-1","title":"The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter","description":"\u003ch2 aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBook Summary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThat 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 . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"707\"\u003eColin Dexter is best known as the creator of \u003cstrong data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"455\"\u003eInspector Morse\u003c\/strong\u003e, the brilliant but irritable Oxford-based detective featured in a series of crime novels. Before becoming a full-time author, Dexter worked as a \u003cstrong data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eclassics teacher\u003c\/strong\u003e and then as an \u003cstrong data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"660\"\u003eeducational officer\u003c\/strong\u003e for the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"840\"\u003eHe began writing in the early 1970s when he was on a rainy holiday in Wales and started drafting what became his first Morse novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45187185606842,"sku":"2UTFXTYIP-Used","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/1_c83c3d21-4404-4b73-a203-910da8a5b512.jpg?v=1758906107","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/the-wench-is-dead-1","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}