So there the story starts-the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of Ruben Levy on the one hand, and the sudden and inexplicable appearance of who knows whose body in Mr. All this, with a host of additional precautions. The autopsy subject is then deposited, whole, in a (more or less) random person’s bathtub. Levy is decoyed into Freke’s house, murdered, his body is switched for that of a recently dead autopsy subject, and promptly rendered unrecognizable. He’s a thoroughgoing, ruthless villain, and lays the trains of a super complex plan to murder his enemy. Julian Freke, a surgeon who specializes in criminal pathology and brainy stuff, has an old grudge against Sir Ruben Levy. So bear in mind that this is not at all the sequence of events as revealed in the book-but to tell it as revealed would turn my brief synopsis into a thesis paper. Like puzzles, mysteries are easier to explain backwards than forwards. Whose Body? is a medium length book, longer I think than most of the Sherlock Holmes novels, around the length of The Secret Adversary by Christie.ĭetective stories are in my opinion usually better for teenagers than younger children, and the villain in Whose Body? is grotesquely cold blooded-besides, naked bodies are being thrown around in the course of the mystery, and in short, I wouldn’t go lower than 15+.Īt the bottom are a few concluding sentences if that’s all you need, but for complete spoilers and details, read straight on! Thipps’ bathtub? It certainly isn’t the body of Ruben Levy… but then where is Ruben Levy? Whose is the body that mysteriously appears, overnight, in Mr. In a twist on the ordinary murder mystery, not only do we not know who done it, we also don’t know who they’ve done it to.
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