• Colin Dexter
  • Fiction
  • 2008-09-04

The Wench is Dead

Author: Colin Dexter

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

ISBN:

Category: Fiction

Page:

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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.
  • Jack Seabrook
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • 1993

Martians and Misplaced Clues

The Life and Work of Fredric Brown

Author: Jack Seabrook

Publisher: Popular Press

ISBN:

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 312

View: 711

Brown (1906-1972) was a popular and respected author of more than 20 mysteries and science fiction novels (The Fabulous Clipjoint, won the 1948 Edgar Award for best mystery novel). This study looks closely at his work and chronicles his unusual life. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
  • John Godwin
  • History
  • 2011-02

The Murder of Christina Collins

Author: John Godwin

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: History

Page: 62

View: 540

Good Christian people, pray attend Whilst I relate to you Concerning of a murder foul, It is, alas, too true. 'Twas on the 17th day of June This murder it was done. They did complete the awful deed Before the rising sun. A helpless female, much beloved Was travelling to her home, Three boatmen seized her as she sat The water was her home. Here for the first time complete with extensive gazetteer and map is the true story of the murder of Christina Collins on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Rugeley in 1839, the story that inspired the creator of Inspector Morse, Colin Dexter, to write his award winning novel, The Wench is Dead. This much expanded edition is fully illustrated with an introduction by Colin Dexter. This guide is a must for all those with an interest in canals, history, murder and Inspector Morse as well as those who just want to explore some of the most beautiful locations in the England.
  • Colin Dexter
  • Morse, Inspector (Fictitious character)
  • 1982-05

Service of All the Dead

Author: Colin Dexter

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company

ISBN:

Category: Morse, Inspector (Fictitious character)

Page: 285

View: 782

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." --The New York Times Book Review This time Inspector Morse brings the imposition on himself. He could have been vacationing in Greece instead of investigating a murder that the police have long since written off. But he finds the crime--the brutal killing of a suburban churchwarden--fascinating. In fact, he uncovers not one murder but two, for the fatal fall of St. Frideswides vicar from the church tower Morse reckons to be murder as well. And as he digs into the lives and unsanctified lusts of the late vicar's erring flock, the list of the dead grows longer. Not even the oddly appealing woman he finds scrubbing the church floor can compensate Morse for the trouble he's let himself in for. So he has another pint, follows his hunches, and sets out to untangle the deadly business of homicide. . . . "A BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED DETECTIVE STORY." --Evening Standard (London) "WILY. . . ELEGANT." --Observer (London)
  • Libraries
  • 2000

Kaapse bibliotekaris

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Libraries

Page:

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Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-
  • Kinley E. Roby
  • Literary Criticism
  • 1985

Critical Essays on T.S. Eliot

The Sweeney Motif

Author: Kinley E. Roby

Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall

ISBN:

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 245

View: 816

  • Edward N. Zempel
  • Books
  • 1993

Book Prices

Used and Rare 1993

Author: Edward N. Zempel

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Books

Page: 613

View: 326

  • Chitralekha Divakaruni
  • 1984

For Danger is in Words

Changing Attitudes to Language in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Author: Chitralekha Divakaruni

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category:

Page: 826

View: 584

  • Colin Dexter
  • Detective and mystery stories, English
  • 1998

The Fourth Inspector Morse Omnibus

Author: Colin Dexter

Publisher:

ISBN:

Category: Detective and mystery stories, English

Page: 792

View: 804

This anthology features three Inspector Morse novels. In The Way Through the Woods, a young tourist disappears in North Oxford. In The Daughters of Cain, Morse takes over an unsolved murder. Death Is Now My Neighbour sees Morse on the trail of a killer.
  • Mary Elmblad
  • Fiction
  • 1987

All Manner of Riches

Author: Mary Elmblad

Publisher: Viking Adult

ISBN:

Category: Fiction

Page: 467

View: 388

Tells the story of Cassie Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter, who struggled to become a successful, wealthy, Texas lawyer.