Ooh I know the theme for this *and* elements of the answers w/o looking up: they're all from Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books. LOTS OF SPOILERS IN THESE ANSWERS btw (tho more in answers which included the actual details requested)
i: dimly recognise this but that's no good is it? ii: is the man the newly married Peter&Harriet bought their dreamhouse from (they find his body in the cellar when they take possession, in Busman's Honeymoon iii: might be Have His Carcase? But "cadaveric rigidity" plays a role in more than one book, so need to check the exact phrasing iv: in Unnatural Death, the emboli are bubbles introduced to the bloodstream via hypodermic -- is the murderer a personal nurse? Long time since I read it. v: Whose Body? features a pince nez, but I don't recall this detail vi: p sure this is Have His Carcase: the victim has his throat cut (rather nastily) but I'm not sure if it's his own or the murderer's vii: pilot is Wimsey, book is Clouds of Witness, his brother is in the dock, the dock is in the House of Lords viii: don't recall his name, he's the elderly victim in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club ix: Batty Thomas is the largest -- and most cursed -- of the bells in The Nine Tailors, responsible for several deaths, including that of the disgraced butler who is trapped in the bell tower and killed by sonic waves x: don't remember this at all, it sounds Father Brown-y
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Date: 2015-12-28 10:48 am (UTC)i: dimly recognise this but that's no good is it?
ii: is the man the newly married Peter&Harriet bought their dreamhouse from (they find his body in the cellar when they take possession, in Busman's Honeymoon
iii: might be Have His Carcase? But "cadaveric rigidity" plays a role in more than one book, so need to check the exact phrasing
iv: in Unnatural Death, the emboli are bubbles introduced to the bloodstream via hypodermic -- is the murderer a personal nurse? Long time since I read it.
v: Whose Body? features a pince nez, but I don't recall this detail
vi: p sure this is Have His Carcase: the victim has his throat cut (rather nastily) but I'm not sure if it's his own or the murderer's
vii: pilot is Wimsey, book is Clouds of Witness, his brother is in the dock, the dock is in the House of Lords
viii: don't recall his name, he's the elderly victim in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
ix: Batty Thomas is the largest -- and most cursed -- of the bells in The Nine Tailors, responsible for several deaths, including that of the disgraced butler who is trapped in the bell tower and killed by sonic waves
x: don't remember this at all, it sounds Father Brown-y