BURIED FOR PLEASURE:
THE TIMELESS CASES

There are some cases for which it is impossible to glean anything other than a 'best before' date. It is tempting, with these, to assume that they may have occurred during the period between Fen's marriage (1933) and the events of The Moving Toyshop (1938). In these we can include The Two Sisters - a simple case of sororicide.

A different type of sisters were involved in The Lion's Tooth, nuns in fact. Again, the only indications we have of when this happened was that it was a January, and happened before 1955. Nonetheless, let us succumb to temptation and date this prior to 1938, even while wondering if the good sisters would have appealed to a relatively young and certainly unknown investigator (as Fen was then) in their hour of need.

Gladstone's Candlestick is another case for which there is scant chronological evidence. That it was first related to the world by Crispin in 1955 is not necessarily indicative of it belonging to this period. And Gina Mitchell, a student, is on very friendly terms with her professor, perhaps indicative of his earlier, more irresponsible days. This too, then, we will tentatively place in the pre-Toyshop days.

For much the same reasons, Death and Aunt Fancy is consigned to 1937.