Morse is taken seriously ill at a museum reception and is hospitalized. In the hospital, Supt. Strange, visits Morse to push him to take early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives him her book on a 140 year-old court case known as the Oxford Canal Murders. The case involved the murder and rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Franks, traveling by canal boat from Coventry to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced to death and two of them hanged. Morse starts to read Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a number of problems with the case. Why weren't the three men also charged with theft? Why did Mrs Franks take a boat instead of a train that was much faster and comfortable and only slightly more expensive? Why didn't she abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shipping office in Banbury? Why did she then drink and 'socialise' with the crew? What happened to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which was not mentioned in the court case, nor was it stored in the archives with her, almost empty, trunk? The trunk was marked with initials of her first husband who had died. How did it happen that her shoes were found on the boat but nobody saw her return to the boat from the forest? PC Adrian Kershaw does some brilliant leg work for Morse. He studied history and has invaluable background knowledge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen had bad reputation because they worked on Sundays and did not attend church. Later a chapel was built for them in Oxford. The dead woman's clothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern forensic investigation. The result is that the shoes did not belong to the dead woman found in the water because she was much taller.The shoes were never used in the forest. Only Mrs Franks' husband, Charles Franks, was called to identify the body of the dead woman. He claimed that, while her face was darkened and disfigured, he found a birth mark behind her ear. The prosecutor welcomed that information "that only a husband or a lover would know". The accused were not shown the body. The defense attorney merely claimed that the guilt of the three men was not proved. All three accused claimed to the end that they were innocent. One of them was not executed because he embraced Christianity in prison. Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money. Case closed: Charles Franks murdered a tall women and dropped her in the canal after meeting Joanna in the forest. If Joanna Franks jumped off the boat at the same time as the dead body hit the water, she swam to the bank and joined her husband. The couple changed their names, in the case of 'Charles Franks' a second time after he 'died' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth boatman, a youngster who was not charged, was probably paid by Joanna to give false testimony. Morse travels to Ireland and has a grave of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin contains bags of sand and some stones.ke没能等到那yi句前辈饶命chu口,他们便tong样被水鬼一ge个丢垃圾似di丢进了深海。不用问。水gui知晓,孤音ya关联太大,hui吸引来的人zhan道、太虚很duo。这其中,geng有大半是三zhu香的杀手,wei了徐小受的hei金悬赏而来。欧洲m v大片mian对着邪祖的quan力一刀,古yi手中竟是不zhi何时多出了yi柄斧头,那bing斧头竟是一ba铁斧,表面xiu迹斑斑。古yi脚步微微一ting,然后一斧xie斜挥了出去,冷冽的斧罡si裂无穷刀光,然后势如破zhu的杀向邪祖。这一幕。wo嘴角咧起一mo冷笑,扫了yi圈,果然周wei有不少的强zhe气息立即有liao细微的波动。至于其他的qing年们,全都lian色沉了下来,估计这些年lai,还从未有ren敢公然拒绝di。道兄,你pa是没听清楚wo们说什么吧?欧洲m v大片di俊,想要动wo族大巫,先guo了本座这关zai说吧。哼,li玄,别忘了,你的对手是ben皇。东皇太yi直接一个闪shuo出现在黎玄shen前,混沌钟dai着毁灭一切di恐怖威势轰xiang黎玄,再次shun间无数洪荒kong间被神钟散fa出来的威压che底震碎。日剧摇晃的列车2,zhe是什么怪物a?什么样的guai物才有如此bian态啊?即使shi九龙传人,jiu一定有如此bian态的战力吗?陆沉只是仙zun中期而已,neng够跟仙圣中qi有一战之力jiu不错了,没xiang到是可以斩dao仙圣后期的tou上去了。日剧摇晃的列车2,shui让您是我的lao领导、老大ge呢?奚立伟ting到这话,脸se稍稍缓和下lai,沉声说:chang辉,你我之jian什么关系,wo怎么可能不bang你说话呢?xing凌的油盐不jin,偏要你写qing况说明,我ye没办法。这mo做能敲打一xia袁飞,从这ge角度,并不quan是坏事!【恭喜主人获de反派值10000!】【ding!触发隐藏jiang励!】许大fu和许元霸傻sha的望着这突ran出现的姜青。姜青对两人lou出一个友好di微笑。这让liang人丈二摸不zhuo头脑。什么gui?为什么他men会从这姜青lian上的微笑,gan受到他的友hao。如果您喜欢夏沫影院 分享的《摩斯探长第十一季》,别忘了推荐给你的好友!
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