Author: Colin Dexter
Title: The Wench Is Dead
Description: London, Macmillan, 1989. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this detective novel from the popular Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter. The first edition of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This novel 'The Wench is Dead' received the Gold Dagger Award in 1989. It is an historical crime novel and is the eighth in the Inspector Morse Series. In this novel Morse is hospitalised due to a bleeding ulcer and is given a book on an historic murder case in Oxford by a friend. In this 1859 murder a young woman was found floating in the Oxford Canal and two men were hanged for the murder. Morse declares this verdict as incorrect and sets about proving the hanged men were innocent from the confines of his hospital bed. Colin Dexter was a popular English crime writer, best known for his 'Inspector Morse' series of novels. Throughout his career he received several Crime Writer's Association awards: Two Silver Daggers, Two Gold Daggers and A Cartier Diamond Dagger. He also received an OBE for his services to literature. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition with just a faint crease to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper has some spotting to the flaps, and a little creasing to the upper extremities, but is otherwise very bright and smart. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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