Nothing like the classics. It seems to me that Bunter figures much more largely in this one. We already know that he was with Lord Peter through the war and knows how to deal with his flashbacks, but in this one he is very active in the investigation. He is Lord Peter's entire CSI team: fingerprints, trace evidence, photographs, the whole package. And this one is a tricky one, even by Sayers standards.
The elderly general is found dead in his chair at the club, and across town, his sister has died as well. And all the money goes to the heirs of the one who didn't die first. Complicating things is the fact that it is the British equivalent of Memorial Day - or Armistice Day, I think it was called back after WWI - and this is soon enough after the war to be a pretty big deal.
This is also an opportunity for Sayers to express some feelings about the war and its devastating effects on those that survived.
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