A fictional police officer lies in a hospital bed and his mind wanders to a historic case.
However, it isn’t Inspector Alan Grant and the disappearance of the “Princes”, as related by Tey, but Inspector Morse and the definite murder of Christina Collins.
Written in 1989, The Wench is Dead was broadcast on Radio 4 in 1992 and was John Thaw’s penultimate television case as Morse on ITV in 1998.
I’m watching the TV version of this Morse book, and it appears to be a direct crib of Tey’s “A Daughter in Time”. Just a more boring background story that the main character is investigating from his hospital bed.
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[…] Matilda” (Natalia, left). The entrance will be familiar to those who have viewed The Wench is Dead, where two of the boatmen were hanged and a third reprieved. The prison (right), where real […]
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