The Slow Work Summary

Lord Peter and Blundell are perplexed as they wait for James Thoday to return to England. Lady Wilbraham dies and leaves her money to Hilary Thorpe and the emeralds to Lord Peter, who gives the emeralds to Hilary, although she is uncomfortable about her new wealth. Lord Peter returns to the Fenchurch area for the grand opening of the New Wash Cut. James Thoday returns to England but denies all knowledge of Jeff Deacon. His story is compromised by a witness, who shows that James had hired and used a motorbike to give himself an alibi. Parker decides to shut James and Will Thoday in a room with a hidden microphone and learns that although Will tied Deacon in the bell chamber and James took the dead body down and buried it, neither of them killed Deacon.

The Slow Work Analysis