摩斯探@_长第十一季

剧情简介

Morse i$s taken serio:usly ill at? a( =-muse))u``? m reception@- and is ho?
%spi)ta]_$l.ized. In the hos[`p+ital, Supt. /Strang\e/;\,], v (isits M!(o[@=*rse to push him to - ta)^k(!e early retirement, while Dr. Mil-#li-[ ^cent 'Mil-:lie'_.?^ Van Bur%?;:en gives him her book ( on % a 140 year-old court c -ase known +as t)_=he[[
 Oxford Canal \Murders. The case i^(.nvo/l[ !ved th.e# .mur /d
$-=er !/:\and,
rape of a young woman, Mrs) Joa nna Frank.s, 
^*#traveling ;
+ by!]`% canal boat fr[*.^om Coventry to ` L^ o]=$ndon#. [=The ca)?se resulted in th$=@ree boat+_men being # sentenced t,o d^e=+ ath and two of th?.em; ha/*n)ged. M;(*orse starts to read Millie's book /and .d ream ]s about it. He soon ha s a number of % :proble)ms wit;%$^h the case.　　Why weren't+ the three men also ch \arged with theft Why d`^id Mrs Fr^@anks take a+ boat inst-ea ==d o;:f a  train t`(hat wa=s much\ faster ,.and[, comf`-ortable and only slig#*htly )) mo
.re expensive Why d/idn't? she a]b/;andon the boat 
afte r she c omp-?,l]#a=/;)i ned .\abo# ut lewd behavi?]or o$f the crew^@ at t*he shippin[?g office in Banbury Why did she then dr,= ink and 'socialise' with the cr e/;w Wh--#+at happened to he#r 'carpet bag' w#i\t] h w$*hich)! she +!arrived on th!)e/#  boat b ut which wa([s not menti_=oned i/*
n the cou-
(rt-; ca__se![., nor wa;[!!%s _it st +ored in the ar( chive?s with her ), alm`)os!t em##pty, t[?r);;=u;.:nk? The tru^;?nk*, was ma#%rked with -[initials of her f*^i!
rst husband who had d,:ied.  How did it +#happe*] n that her= sh ^^\oes were  found o@$n`?( the boat but nobody:] saw her return to the boat from th
.e!\^ fore`!st　　PC ^
!Adr)i^an+ Kershaw ,_#do*e:\::s some b.
,rilliant leg work for Morse.
H e studied history and ha=/s 
invaluable background k[=n:
owledge. Fo!r instance, /h
;e; menti!:o+]ns that/
( the boat-*,men had bad reput ation _+becaus
^e =,they wor
+.ked on Sundays an_`;d d#id _?!not a`(tte\*,
n
+)d ch%!?urch. Later a chapel was: +: built for them in Ox*/ford.　　The dead wom]an's clothes and the +* .shoes, found \@o*]_n the boat are subm]-itted to mode;)rn \[(forens@ic inv_
estigation`%[. Th?__e result=
\, i[]))s+ that the_/ shoe#s# did not belo$*,)ng to+^ ^ the d;ead woman f?@oun\+
%d i.:n *+th+,e water becau.
se she=/ :was$+ much taller.The shoes we`^%re never used in $) the forest.　　Onl\\y / /Mrs Franks' husband,
Charles Fran:%  ks, was_ calle$/ d -%t^!o identif#y the ,body#; . of t/` he dead@ woman. He claimed that, while *her face
 was darken$)-e-@d and dis?%figured, he found a birth mark^.= b-_eh\`ind he::?]r ea=r. T
he#/# prosecutor \welcome%)d *that i!nformation th
( at only a:/ husban/[d or a lover ]/=]wo=%uld know. The accused]+ were not sho):wn _/)the body.,?@^ The d=e!(fense a-ttorney mere_=ly (claimed that the g/uilt of the(( three%./) m:]!en# w)as[+ not-@![] prov(=ed. Al]l three
accu sed claime/@d to the end=( that they we\,%re. innocent`.= O?ne of them was not executed because he embr]ac,=ed Christ.
-ianity

?in ` (-$prison.　　Morse instr.^ucts Kersha:w to-^ investiga[te if Cha ,!rles Franks bene?#fited from= his _;wife's de +a,]th a^?nd, i $ndeed, he po.ck/eted 3!^00 pou+!_nds; insuranc/-e money. Case)\ cl osed C harles Franks mur/%de[=red a t$al@!l * women an,`d dropped h/er in the c @anal after meeting (.Joanna +in the f/o[)res
t. If J:oan! na Franks )[jumped off ]the boat[- at t.-he
^same time as the dead bo*d/y hit
*, the water,! she swam] to `the bank and joined her husba ..nd. The c;`ouple c+)hanged their ^#nam_es, in the case of `^'?Cha%:rles; Frank!#s(' =a ,-(sec+:ond time af.ter -@he !'died' .as Joanna's f?;irst h)usband. The fourt* #h boatman, a youn-%gster who was not cha/#rged, was p*,_?robab/,ly pa-
id by Joanna to give false testimon)($y.]\ 　　Morse tr`/avel]=(s to I#:#%rela^nd and has = a.:? :, grave /_[of ;=Joanna's firs-;
t hu.sba;nd exhume( -d. T.#-h?@+e coffi#\n contai`\.ns_``; b#$ags of  san ]+d and so+m e sto. nes.