The Wench is Dead: An Inspector Morse Mystery 8

"The Wench is Dead" is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series, set in Oxford and featuring a detective interested in a historical murder case. The story involves the discovery of a woman’s body in 1859, and later, the protagonist’s own hospital recovery after a health scare. During his convalescence, Morse investigates the past case and becomes convinced that two men hanged for the crime may not have been guilty.