Some Related-ish Q's

[3a-berkeley.livejournal.com]

Hi, sorry if this is not allowed, but I am writing a story inspired by Jeeves and Bertie and I'm having trouble finding some information I could really use, and I thought maybe people here might know or know in which direction to point me. I was wondering about laundry-presumably that was part of Jeeves' job or did he send it out anywhere to be cleaned? Also, what were funeral practices like in 1930s Britain? Thanks so much!

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[derien.livejournal.com]

I would imagine there would be a little delay for the police, then. They might desire the body to remain in the morgue while they investigate. Then you get into procedurals of the time, which I don't really know about. It could be possible that the body might not be released until they felt they had gathered all the information they could from it, but at that time I'm not sure how much they would assume they could get. I really don't know. I would imagine that a week or so might be sufficient. I haven't even read a lot of Agatha Cristie.

[3a-berkeley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the police are investigating. They're the ones who told the valet about the crime. I imagine a week at most, the flat would be an active crime scene. I've read about Victorian era crime solving from Patricia Cornwall, and I think the newest bit of forensics in the interwar period (nibeteen teens-50s-roughly between WWI&WWII), was fingerprinting, which was all done manually, of course.