Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

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.

Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead. Pan, ISBN: 9781447299233 (May, 2016), 337 p., £8.99.

Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 am. 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 trial that followed Joanna Franks' death ... and becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent...

The Wench is Dead won the Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year in 1989. It is the last of the novels to be adapted, and will probably be the last television addition to Carlton's Inspector Morse series,

Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead. An Inspector Morse Mystery. Pan, ISBN: 0330450816 (May, 2007), 237 p., £6.99.

Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead (UK 1991)

From the Publisher:
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 trial that followed Joanna Franks' death... and becomes convinced that the two men hanged for her murder were innocent...

The Inspector Morse novels have been adapted for the small screen, with huge success, in Carlton/Central Television's series starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately. The Wench is Dead is the last of the novels to be adapted, to be broadcast in November 1998.

Colin Dexter: The Wench Is Dead. Pan, ISBN: 0330313363 (July, 1991), 208 p., £5.99 (?).