摩斯??探长第十一季

剧情简介

Morse is `
@taken \: ser?i: ously ? i-ll at a museum re?$cep_@tion?* and is hospitali^=zed. In ^:the hos,(pit@al, Supt.@ Stra(nge, visits Mo.\%rse:? to p(*@ush him to ,take early retirement, wh-
ile Dr. ;Mill; `ice^
)nt 'Millie' Van Buren_ \ gives him her book on a]%!# 140 year-old  /court case k+ n.own a%s ^? the Oxf ]\(ord Canal^ M@\ur_ders. The case invol)(_ved the murder and rape of a young wom#_an, Mrs Jo]anna /]Franks, tr/_^?ave\l,ing/(#@ $!by ca.?na` ,l boat: fr)_om+$\ Co_vent/_ry to London. The\
` #?!.cas?]_ e res`ulted in three boatmen be%in@ g s:$entenced t=)o death and! - -^\two?+ o f #*them han[/*ged. Mors]#!e ^%star/ts to r\+ead ; M%* ill@=@]ie's bo!]ok $*and ].:dreams[**
about it. He so)_on has a )numb%er+@ of *prob?lems with. the case.　　Why weren't the thr;ee men als: o charged wi$\th theft Why did Mrs: Franks  tak-@!#e a boat instead: of a train [%that was m!uch faster- an.#d comforta]@,b[le and  only(_ s=lightl-[(y mor_e _e@xpensive Why didn't sh:`.=e aba-nd=on the .:boat after; she c@/@o:-mp( =-`laine``d :ab#*o+.ut lewd behavior of the crew at )*the shipping office,`; in Banbur_y Wh\!!y did she t@hen drink and 'so\/ci:alise' wi(_th the/ `@^crew :What- happened (\to h(er 'car(p`et bag_' with ^!.
which /`she
arri:-`ved on th,]e boat b -ut which w.:%as not me/ntio!-ned ^[+in th$^]e co:^[urt case,( nor was it. stored in the arc-hi%ves` %with h@.er, almost empt[/y, tr=?unk The trunk *=was m=
arked w%\ith in: itials of her =(:fir@st husban(d.( w+ho /had died. How did !it] happen th#-+a t her sh`oes were f*
ound on the boat bu,(_t nobod y sa(w  he r / return to the boat from t:/he forest　　:,PC % Adrian Kershaw does some *=^ brilliant le\.g work f--,or (.
Morse. *He# studied .^]history and has invalua;ble b$
!]ackgr?_o*und knowledge\ . For instance,* he mentio `ns th@: at $the boatme?((n had bad^ ; re +
p;-
#utat)ion /beca*use the*[y worked on Sundays and di!(d not: atten%*:d chu@(rch. L_(ater a c! h*/apel was bui-, ;lt [ for them i?)n ][?Oxford.　　The dea!-d woman ('s c;.lo #thes a+ nd  the sh.]_oes ^+]found o%)%-n^] the boat are submitted to moder_=n forensic: \ i%*[nvesti$?gation. ]!The res`?ult is that the s; ho.%es did _not belong to th,e dead woman f;[^?oun-d [
in /the@! wa;ter because sh,*e was mu $
c!*
h taller.The sho es were ne`+v]_er u= sed in the forest.　　Only )Mrs Franks' husband,.
/Ch:\arl.. es Fran?,$ks, ; /was call@@_ed to /ident,ify th._e body o:f the dead ] =]woman. H-_e claimed that, +,whi)?;l/e[] her face was d :arkened !and =(d / _i-s#,#figured, he^ found a birth !m!#*ark behin-/d h\=%er ear(. The \pro`secutor welco+med; tha @t in)(fo,
rmat.-]ion th/]at only a husband o;r a lover would kno\w./. Th/:e ac cused were_ (not shown )th\]e bod_?y. The def
;ense-@$ attorne
:y merely claimed th$
at the guilt of th#[:e/ #three* men *%was not proved.%;) Al$l)+#, three accused claimed to the end th;:at they ;wer.%e innoc--?.en/!t. O?=ne of\ them was not executed be`cause he e^(mbra$ !ced Chr$^^istianity
in prison.　　Morse instru)cts Kers haw to inve@stigate if Charles Fr+ an
\/ks benefi%\?ted from his wife's _(death and, ind]]eed, he poc\keted 300 pounds insurance money .[ ( Ca`#se closed Charles Franks# murdered a tall women and d)*,ropped her#?# i:\ n t/he canal! .@/after %meeti)[ ng J!= oanna in ,=the forest. ;If Joanna Franks jumped off the boa*`t*##[ at th%e same\ . time as t#*he dead . *body hit @the wate@ r, she swam to the /.bank $an=$,d joined her husband. The coupl*e chan_=ged the[=ir nam])es, in the=]@ case o?)f!@` 'Charles Franks' a]? (se!co
nd tim; e after he 'die` d' as Joann!a's fi=[rst hus-ba];nd  . The fourt*h boatm.an, %+[a young!ster who was not charged,?( was pr!=obably pai
d b#+y Joanna to give[ fa;lse testimony.　　)`Morse travels )]to Irela.?nd /
and ha,s a gra v:`:e o^[f` J-\)oanna'.(s first 
husb:and. exhumed. The co(^ffin c.
on.ta;-\#ins bags of sand and

some stones.