The Wench is Dead | 
pickMy favourite Morse book to date; given that it was the first one to win the British Crime Writers‘ Gold Dagger award, I was obviously not alone in this opinion! While convalescing in hospital, Morse is intrigued by a booklet about a murder 130 years previously, and finds inconsistencies that lead him to believe the wrong people were convicted, and he sets out to find the truth.
TheEllieMo I do feel, though, that the book owes a huge debt to Josephine Tey‘s The Daughter of Time, published some 38 years prior to The Wench is Dead, which also used the concept of a detective reviewing an historical crime from their hospital bed. (edited) 6y
TheEllieMo And I do wish Morse wasn‘t such a lech!! At least he seems to be getting less interested in porn. It will be interesting seeing how his character progresses, and by the time The Wench is Dead was published, there had been 3 series of Morse on TV. I‘m interested to see if TV Morse had an influence on Book Morse 6y
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