摩斯"!探长第十一季

剧情简介

Morse@= is ) t@a\ke+_;$n s$er!]iou<sl<*y ill at a mus +=eum #r)(^/ecept(i*_
on  and is hospi!$[!talized. In +the hospital, Supt,:. St) range, v\#i][ sits M$?
o#rse to pu--sh h"@im to take e/^a>rly r><etirem^ent, while `"@Dr. Millicent #^'>Millie' Van Buren gives him he(r book on a 140 \^year-*old court case ]=known[ .as the Oxford Cana]-$l Mu rders
. The case >(?i,n$[;volved the murder and rap=%\e of a young woman, M]rs Joann>\a Franks?&(, traveli=]ng+> by canal boat from Coven'try to London. The case resulted in three boatmen being sentenced ( to deat/_ h &)(\and two \of -<*@them ha==!nged. .Mo/^rse - "s" .tarts +[to read Millie's\& book " a=/-nd dreams \, about, it. He soon ;h^*%as a(
'<+ num ber of p<roblems with the ca se.　　Why_ wer&]en't _<the thr%& ee#  #>(men al+'s#o cha.?rged(.+% _)';w<ith  ^+the/`ft /$Why \=_did Mrs Franks ta*-+k\^^e a boat in*'stead+\( o?f a trai 'n that wa_"s&=[ much faste r and(? co#^:mfor:??table and only slightly more expensive W]hy didn't`& s``he aban+]don the `#!_boat aft>er she complained, (_%ab/
out l;)ewd%+ behav/=`ior of< & the<# c-rew at the(. shi\pping offi(!%ce i][,n Banbury Why did
>she,% then drink and 'sociali#!+se' with the crew W [,hat happened to %.he;,r = 'ca/=rpe / t(]! bag' with whi'[.ch she&%$ ar"<>r[[i<:;ved / +on the boat% but# @% whic=-h was not[%/ mentio:^ned in the^## court case, nor was@^ it !stored+ in th<&_e ar chiv +&es wi(>th her, almos_ t empty^ ,-, trun#k ^;The trunk @>was marked wit=h initials 
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'+er f$<]ir'st husband who` ) ha=)d d/ied.\^ How did it happen tha?t:& her sho;_es we\_;"re found o! n t..h+e bo>at but nobody saw +her re@^.-turn to\ t_#.he b`oat from the  ,fo%rest　　P&C Ad< ri%an Ker+&shaw does." so _; me bri^l+@
liant]" leg work for Morse&%<. He /[s`tud<_;$ie^,?d h;istory*) and has invaluabl)(e [^# backg'"/round knowled](&ge. For instance, he men,(tion!`s that the boatmen had bad-= reput"'>ation becau/+<se they wo=/r#)k(ed o>%n Su#/ndays a'nd )(:did not attend "_church^\\.]& Late@ +
r a chapel wa % s built for the
>'%m i-:n Oxford.　　The dead w
om>%an's clothes an'd t?+'h)&"e)<) shoe>\^>s fo.^und - on the boa=.;t -`are submitted to mode
@-rn forensic #>inve=stigati:_,o<[n. &!#Th e result \/i>>s=^( t";(h/"]at the shoes d/:`#id n>+#ot belong to $'
t- he de+'ad woman found in :the=> water be:ca@use she was much taller.The shoe!>s wer!e<( never used '_in !? the forest.-　　Only Mrs Franks' hus_band, Charl+?es (]Fran?&#ks, _.@w(>^as called t[_o identify t(,he body of the dead wom.an%-. He claimed[ that, while her f<=ace was darkened and dis+fi>gured, he found a birth mark behind :her ear.
^>The pro$$se<$cutor `&" w@elc((>ome`)d that in+fo]'+rma$tion- that only a husban'd ` @or a < lover>_ would k,n".;ow. T
h[ e accused were n-?/o-
.t"\ shown the body. The defens'! e attor-*ney merely c^lai>![!m;ed that the%^+ gu^# i
lt of the thr()*ee m?
en was no <t proved. Al$+l &>three \.`ac(cused claim>ed t=%o the e(]
<nd
) t!,#hat t%"hey >were i^_nnocen@t. One (!\of them w/as= not executed because he ">embrac:ed Chri=#s !+t).iani'%%ty in prison.　　Mors;*e instruc[ts Kershaw ,*to investig=:ate if Ch.!ar;les Fra>##nks benef@&<\ited f
#+'rom h\#(is  : wife:]]'s death and, indeed, +;he po%ck(eted 300_< pounds i[nsuranc(e&+ money.%, C,$]ase \\(cl,#]?os .:ed Char*le]s Fra-nks murdere.&&"d a tall>= women a!&n(?d dropped"+ her `^i` n the can_:al after meeting Joan;na in the f*,orest.# If Jo*
an> na Franks jum&p*ed off, th-[ e boat at the s`ame time as the dead[ .[body hit the[@
, water, sh>-e sw\am to t.he b),ank and > joined her husband=!. >@'The couple cha.:*n$
]ged their names,`-)! in th]`.e*> case of 'Charles`* Frank^
;s' a second time aft>(er he 'died' as Joan]na'\
s first[ husband . The fourth b(o#>a!:tman, )/a youngster who was- not+# @char[$ged, w[as prob
:\ably >:_-paid b],[#y J-oan,[na to!  give $f&#al&/se t",$e ,$_stim><ony.% #　　Morse &(travels to=\ %,I relan-\d@ and has a =]/grav%_^e of Joanna's first h]usband exhumed&^ . The [ coffin con)?t ains bags[] of sand and some s]tones.