Last Bus to Woodstock
The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday afternoon's edition of the 'Oxford Mail'. By Friday evening Morse had informed that the nation that the police were looking for a dangerous man.
The Wench is Dead
At around 10:15am on a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse (though very much alive) was removed to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced successful.
As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and trial which followed Joanna Franks' death . . .
. . . and becomes convinced that the two men who were hanged for the murder of Joanna Franks were innocent . . .
The Jewel that was Ours
For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary.... until one of their number is found dead in room 310 at the Randolph Hotel.
It looks like a sudden and tragic accident. Only chief Inspector Morse appears not to overlook the simultaneous theft of a jewel encrusted antique from the victim's handbag...
Then, two days later, a naked and battered corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell.
