The Wench Is Dead
by:
Colin Dexter (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330503945 (0330503944)
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Pages no: 237
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Morse (#8)
8/13 of the series of mysteries involving Chief Inspector Morse and I was looking forward to this book, safe in the knowledge that it had secured for Colin Dexter the CWA Gold Dagger, for 'Best Crime Novel of the Year' (1989). Certainly the storyline was something of a departure, in that Morse deplo...
The book begins with poor Morse in the hospital suffering from a bleeding ulcer and enlarged liver, the result of all those pints. It's so different from the usual Morse in command; now he's forced to undergo the indignities of the hospital and completely at the mercy of others. He is given a copy o...