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Written & performed by Colin Dexter - Unabridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES

Publisher, Audio Partners (March 2000)

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"Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too." --The New York Times Book Review

Chief Inspector Morse, fictional homicide detective in Oxford, England, is cantankerous, brilliant, hard drinking, exasperating, cunning, gruff, supercilious and womanizing. Morse relies on perceptive intuition as well as rigorous reasoning in solving his cases, many of them involving red herring theories that are later disproved when the truth is determined.

In The Wench Is Dead, Morse, who is in the hospital recovering from an ulcer and attempting to avoid boredom, becomes enthralled in the long-forgotten 1859 death of Joanna Franks. After studying the details, he becomes convinced that the two men convicted of her rape and murder and hung were, in fact, innocent. Morse sets out to find the truth.

Colin Dexter was educated at Cambridge. His career includes 13 years of teaching classics to high school age British students; he also served as examiner at Oxford. Dexter originally created the character of Inspector Morse at a kitchen table while on a rainy Welsh holiday with his wife and daughters. His latest book, The Remorseful Day, also starring Inspector Morse, is being released in February 2000.