摩斯探长 #第十一季

《摩斯探长 #第十一季》Morse is ta?=%ke! =n s:*erio+,@u^sl:)y i ll at a muse^
um reception a/`nd is hospitalized$. I _/n the hospital, -./Supt.
(+ St@range,+ visits Mor+;se to push h!im 
t
:\o take earl[y r=$etirement. , while Dr. !@Mil #?l?
!icent 'Mil lie' Van`_; Buren gives h-$%i`/.$m her bo!ok on a 1:-40 year$-old court case known /)as th)e Oxford C=anal Murders. The ca)se*. +involved t?;
he! ? murder an\]d rape of a young woman, Mrs J_oanna= ^;Franks, .trave.[-l^(ing by canal boat from Covent @@ry to London. The ca:se resulte:-$d $$i^#n / :three boat: =men being sentenc* [?ed to de$-+ath and t.wo of them hanged. Mors,e s/tart)!*s to read,[ Millie's. book and drea**ms about it. H.=@e soon has a numbe ,r  of problems with the)[ cas!+ e.　　Why weren't the three men also charged with theft Why ! did M[rs Fran%ks tak)* e)%), a boa.]$t instead of \//]`a t.$rai#.n t( +hat was much?
faster and comfort+=able = and only slightly more [%expensive Why did)
n't she a=]ban* don the bo))at after she comp
la$:ined a`;bou$*t lewd. beha ?,vior*@ of the crew at the
/ sh=)ipping off ice i,n Banbur;y Why_: did she then/%+# drin(=))k  and 'socialise' with the crew Wh.at h#?)^appened ++`to] her% #/'carpe@`t bag' wi^t#h which sh/ e arrived; o@]n  the boa%+t =(bu_t which wa ,s+??^ no%t mentioned in the cou=rt ca$#se, nor was it store%d i-
,n ]th:e ^,._archives@. ? with her, al]mos(-,#t ;.?empty, trunk The trun;+k ,was mark^e\d wit !+h initia,ls o#?/f her firs+= t[^++ husband who/ h ad d@,ied. How did it happen!
 th at her shoes w!_:ere foun)()d on the bo?a
t @,but nobod$
y: saw#; ( her retu=(rn to the boat from the fores,./t　　PC Adria n K/_ershaw/\ does some brilliant] leg w
:ork for Morse. %
/H(e _#)studied h
@istory a@+,nd +=@has inval(uable %=b,)ac$$=kground knowledge. F!or]:* instance:/, he+ me. n+ t ions .that th-e :b $oatmen had bad repu
 t[=!ation _ becau_ =se !%*the%;y worke+^d on ./\Sunday%[^s and d\:i^`/d not atte =*nd church. Late-,@%r%/  ;#/;a chape:.l was built for;) them in Ox`for;d*).　　Th)e/?_ dead woman's cl_o+,thes and th e sh` oes foun,d o/@n the boat $ are=] submitt@$ed to#) modern _for%(ens
?%ic in,vestigatio\;n. Th*e\ result i!s# that the sh=[],o?es did_ not belong to the dead wo*/man fo-%_un),d in t
he wate r be_ _caus e she was mu%=c@\_h taller.The sho-es^( were nev%;er u_+(se$ `d i::n !@t;%he forest[].\　　Only %\
Mrs Fra@=*)nks'*
husba#: nd, Charles Franks, ? was ca*.lled /)!to identify the body; of the de.ad ]%woman. He clai
med? that-:, while her face wa^s darkened and disfigure^d, he fo+#und+ ; a birth mark be;hind :her ear. The pros)^ecuto _r) welco@=me; ,d that i
%;n(!fo ,rmation that only .@-a husb;and or a (`lo=\ver woul[d know.
=;The accused were not shown the body. The defense) attorn
ey mer-
`ely claimed t@;ha*t the g)(uilt of the -thre=;;e\ m
*;]en was not pro!`(ved. All three accused claim/ed to th[e end that they w
/#ere i=%nnoce\-#nt!
. O^ne( o=(,f;:] ] t 
hem was not e$#xecuted becau[se `h e embra!*,
ced Ch ristianity in prison+=.　

!　Mors^e in ^@struc:ts Kershaw, to# investig*ate if Ch$_arles Franks benefited f`;r;.om his wife's death and, indeed, he pocketed 300 poun)$d?%!s in(su;ranc/ ^e money.+ Ca=se cl_$ .o!sed Charles Franks mur:/ dere(

d a `+tall w?om\[en and dropped he.+r i;n the canal afte(:r_-  me eting Joanna!  i=%n t;he forest.@ If J!;[oanna Franks jumped off-;# the boat at the same time as the dead body hit t )\he water, ;!%she sw#:am to the bank and \,j\#`oined he 
r h]@usband.@/. The coupl=%e changed th-\
#eir names, in th-?+)e case of 'Ch#;arles F_ranks' ! a second time after he '!died' _?as Jo/anna
\'s first$; husband. The fourth bo[-atman, $ a y@*-$oung` ster w]- ho was no+$)t ch+
a
rged, ^ was probably paid by Joa*`.nna to gi[^ve false testi-mony@@.　　M-:orse tra@:?vels t@-o Irelan@*d a ?nd has =;a gr?a\
$ve of Joa[nna's [first husband=` exhumed. T;he ;c=[off /in_ con  -tains ba.gs o/ +f [sa*^^nd - and]]. *%]?some .s:; t.o![nes.