90-year-old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly
when he had died -- and the time of death was the determining factor in
a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit
of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's
lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone
was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great
man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor
mortis.