The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin Dexter has won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award twice for The Way Through the Woods and The Wench is Dead.
- ISBN10 0517700670
- ISBN13 9780517700679
- Publish Date 7 March 1995 (first published 9 April 1988)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 8 April 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Format Hardcover
- Language English