This (as correctly guessed but not well remembered) is from Whose Body? Sir Julian Freke murders Sir Reuben Levy and -- as he has access to bodies thanks to his dayjob as a surgeon -- switches them round so that Levy's ends up in the dissection room and the anonymous body from the hospital ends up in someome's bathroom, naked, with the pince-nez perched incongruously on his face. This was Dorothy Sayers' first Wimsey book and the central plot device is really quite like a Chesterton Father Brown story (where it's heads from the guillotine being switched, by a similar character). In both cases there's an unnecessarily long admission letter by the villain.
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Date: 2016-01-02 02:55 pm (UTC)This (as correctly guessed but not well remembered) is from Whose Body? Sir Julian Freke murders Sir Reuben Levy and -- as he has access to bodies thanks to his dayjob as a surgeon -- switches them round so that Levy's ends up in the dissection room and the anonymous body from the hospital ends up in someome's bathroom, naked, with the pince-nez perched incongruously on his face. This was Dorothy Sayers' first Wimsey book and the central plot device is really quite like a Chesterton Father Brown story (where it's heads from the guillotine being switched, by a similar character). In both cases there's an unnecessarily long admission letter by the villain.