Morse is t aken seriousl y ill at a m useum receptio n and is hospitaliz ed. In the hospit al, Supt. St range, visits Morse to push him to t ake early retirement, while Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren gives hi m her book on a 14 0 year-old cou rt case known as the Oxfo rd Canal Murde rs. The case inv olved th e murder a nd rape of a young woman, Mrs Joanna Frank s, traveling by canal bo at from Coventry to London. The case resulte d in three boatmen being sen tenced to death and two of t hem h anged. Mor se starts to r ead Millie's book and dreams about it. He soon has a nu mber of problems with the case. Why weren't the t hree m en also charged with theft Why did Mrs Fran ks take a b oat instea d of a train that was much fas ter and comfortable and only slightly mo re expensive Why didn't sh e abandon the boat after she complained about lewd behavior of the crew at the shi pping office in Ba nbury Why did she the n drink and ' socialise' with the crew What happe ned to her 'carpet bag' with which she arrived on the boat but which w as not mentioned i n the court case, nor was it st ored in t he archives with her, almost empty, tr unk T he trunk was ma rked with initials o f her f irst husb and who had died. How did it happen that her shoes w ere found o n the boat but nob ody saw her return to the boat from the forest PC Adri an Kers haw does some b rillia nt leg wor k for Morse. He studied histor y and has invaluable ba ckgrou nd knowled ge. For instance, he mentions that the boatmen h ad bad reputation because they worked on Sunda ys and did not atten d church. L ater a chapel was built for t hem in Oxf ord. T he dead woman's c lothes and the shoes found on the boat are submitted to modern fore nsic investigation. The result is that th e sh oes did not belo ng to the dead w oman found in the water because she was much talle r.The shoes were never used in the forest. Only Mrs Franks' husban d, C harle s Franks, w as called to identify the bo dy of the d ead w oman. He claim ed that, while her fa ce was darke ned an d disfigu red, he fo und a birth mark behind her e ar. The pros ecutor welcomed that information that only a husband or a lo ver would kn ow. The accused were not shown the b ody. The def ense attorney merely claimed that the guilt o f the t hree me n was not proved. All three ac cused claimed to the end that they were innocent. O ne of them w as not execute d becau se he emb raced Christia nity i n prison. Morse instructs Kershaw to investigate if Charles Franks benefited from his wife' s death a nd, indeed, he pocketed 300 pounds insurance money . Case closed Charles Franks murder ed a tall wo men a nd dropped her i n the canal after meeting Joan na in the for est. If Joanna Franks j umped off the boat at the same time as the dead body h it the water, she swam to the bank and joined her h usband. The couple changed their n ames, in t he case of 'Charles Franks ' a seco nd time after he 'die d' as Joanna's first husband. The fourth bo atman, a youngster w ho was not charged, was probabl y paid by Joanna to give false testimony. Morse travels to Ireland and has a gra ve of Joanna's first husband exhumed. The coffin co ntains bags of sa nd and so me stones. 星辰影院为您提供《摩斯探长第十一季》完整未删减版免费在线观看。
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“他若是因为本公主三言两 语的承诺就答应 了下来， 本公主对他反而没有那么感兴趣。倩碧，你，像 他这样，对这些这荣华富贵 不感兴趣的，将来本公主若是得到了，岂不是 那是更好的东 西吗？若是他日本公主降服了他，那岂 不是很有趣 ，也不必担心，他会因为别的荣华富贵走了。”
“我怎么就不是聚贤 楼的姐了？我从出生开始，就是聚贤楼的姐，从来都没 有错，你我 不是？我告 诉你，你最好不要惹我生气，你一 个泥腿子，我愿意嫁 给你，已经是给了你脸了，你要是这样闹，我会让你滚 出去，你也别想靠娶 了我改变自己的命 运了！”
“当年的事情，我没有办法主动去，因为我没有办法对自 己的家人下手，但如果是你 ，我还是 那句话，我求 之不得，这 样的话， 我心里的大石，也能放下。至 于你想以此 来威胁我，让我一直为了保守秘密 听从于你，那是不可能的，我林间这辈子都不可能 去做一个傀儡的。”
“恐怕你有所不知，那位小姐是黑森的表妹， 你应该知道，以如今黑森 的身价，想买什么项链给 妹妹会没有，为什么要将翠西特小姐 的项链占为己有呢？何况刚才黑森的妹妹一直和我在一 起，想到一会儿可能 黑森会联系她，所以才想 着回来拿包，你应该让令嫒再到别处好好 找找才是
