Inspector Morse: The Wench Is Dead on AllMovie

Part of the long-running British mystery series based on the stories by Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse: The Wench Is Dead was first aired in the U.K. in 1995. While attending a Victorian crime conference, Inspector Morse (John Thaw) gets sick and is subsequently hospitalized. He ends up reading a crime novel about the Oxford Canal Murder of 1859, which he believes ended with a miscarriage of justice. The historic investigation leads to the discovery of a modern-day insurance fraud.