The Lively Dead Author:Peter Dickinson The setting...is a newly fashionable part of West London, where a progressive, forward-looking young housewife is engaged in remodeling a town house. There are more than the usual problems for her to cope with, however. She shares the house with a number of other people, including the exiled government of a Baltic state, the mother of a recently... more » imprisoned call girl, and, it turns out, a mysterious corpse in the newly redesigned garden.