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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,