MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - MobileRead January 2018 Discussion • Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

gmw · 03-09-2018, 06:52 PM

I didn't think to ask if it might have been Christmas eve. A man on the roof carrying what might, in the dim light, have looked like a large sack, accompanied by the jangling of carabiners (as a man with mountaineering experience he will of course have been using lots of rope and carabiners) would all have had ready explanation. Though I'm not sure how to explain the banging as he installed the pitons necessary to lower himself and the body over the edge and into the window - and that strikes me as a very tricky operation even for a doctor with mountaineering experience.

03-09-2018, 06:52 PM	#87
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	I didn't think to ask if it might have been Christmas eve. A man on the roof carrying what might, in the dim light, have looked like a large sack, accompanied by the jangling of carabiners (as a man with mountaineering experience he will of course have been using lots of rope and carabiners) would all have had ready explanation. Though I'm not sure how to explain the banging as he installed the pitons necessary to lower himself and the body over the edge and into the window - and that strikes me as a very tricky operation even for a doctor with mountaineering experience.