Dorothy L.Sayers

Thought you was in a hurry,"

His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola

Sorry, Mother, I can't hear; found what, where?"
"A dead body, dear, in his bath

though she never alluded to it, and maintained a polite fiction of its non-existence

Dear me! it's a dreadful mistake to ride two hobbies at once."

there was no corpse missing from the hospital, and this one didn't answer to the description of any they'd had."

The body which lay in the bath was that of a tall, stout man of about fifty

had been cut and parted by a master hand

The clean-shaven lips were full and sensual

dropped jaw showed teeth stained with tobacc