THE WENCH IS DEAD

By Colin Dexter

Synopsis

While in hospital recovering from a bleeding ulcer, Morse is given a book by the wife of a recently deceased patient. It tells the story of a young girl murdered on the Oxford canal a hundred years previously and Morse becomes convinced that the two men convicted and hanged were innocent. He sets out to prove this from his hospital bed.

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Narrator	Tony Lister
Length	6hrs 45mins
Catalogue No.	2932
Publisher	Macmillan; 1989

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