Much of the research for the novel was carried out at the William Salt Library in Stafford.
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Colin Dexter based the novel on the 1839 murder of 37-year-old Christina Collins as she travelled the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley, Staffordshire on the Staffordshire Knot en route to London.
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The Wench is Dead won the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year in 1989.
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