V. Good Used. The body of Joanna Franks was found at Dukes Cut on the Oxford lCanal, at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859. At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning in 1989 the body of Chief Inspector Morse - though very much alive - was removed to Oxfords John Radcliffe Hospital. Treatment for a perforated ulcer was later pronounced . As Morse begins his recovery he comes across an account of the investigation and trial that followed Joanna Franks death