The Wench is Dead
04 September 2008Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger award, The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.
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...
Details
04 September 2008256 pages
9780330468909Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Traditional crime writing at its best; the kind of book without which no armchair is completeSunday Times
No one constructs a whodunit with more fiendish skill than Colin DexterGuardian
Dexter has created a giant among fictional detectivesThe Times
A character who will undoubtedly retain his place as one of the most popular and enduring of fictional detectivesP. D. James, Sunday Telegraph
