What Dead Body?

It’s more medieval mystery with mirth from Best-Selling Howard of Warwick.

How does Brother Hermitage investigate a murder when he isn’t allowed to mention the murder?

Wat the Weaver is told that a body was left on his doorstep, and so the situation is absolutely clear; there was no body, no one has died and he probably doesn’t even have a doorstep.
Meanwhile, Hermitage can work out what has happened, without telling anyone, obviously.

Interrogating people is completely out of the question.
Enquiring whether anyone is missing will only cause trouble.
And under no circumstances must anyone mention that the body had a touch of the Norman about it.

So, this investigation is going to call for subtlety, cunning and a piercing insight into human nature. But Brother Hermitage will just have to give it a go.

Asking without asking, finding out without people knowing that you’re finding out, and above all keeping everyone in the dark should be fine. Hermitage spends a lot of his investigations in the dark.

But Normans are swarming around Derby, and the competition between them is fierce. Could that have anything to do with the death in question?
And why is no one asking where the person who used to be alive has got to?

At least one thing is clear, no one leaves a body at Hermitage’s door unless it was murdered.
And when he does work out who did it, perhaps he had better not mention that, either.