1989 The Wench is Dead 1st shops Edition Colin Dexter Inspector Morse

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 shops 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. Condition Report: In the original full cloth binding and held in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Small crease to the spine. Dustwrapper is also fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Overall: Fine