Barbican

The Barbican is the site of Euan MacIntyre’s comfortable London flat, proposed as a convenient base for a group considering how to stop Mortimer Cropper from disturbing a grave. Its brief mention places the investigation in a modern domestic setting while the conversation turns to the legal distinctions governing burial grounds and cemeteries.

Proposed Meeting Point

After consulting Euan, the group discusses going to London to speak with Miss Nest and hold what he calls a council of war. Euan suggests that they might follow Cropper and catch him in the act. He offers his flat in the Barbican as a place from which to telephone Dr Nest, and plans to drive there with Val in the Porsche to meet Roland Michell and Maud Bailey.

Connection to the Investigation

The Barbican proposal arises from concern that Cropper may disturb an interment at Hodershall. Euan notes that the law differs according to whether a site is a burial ground or a cemetery, and thinks Hodershall is likely an Anglican graveyard that qualifies as a burial ground. The flat therefore serves as a practical point of coordination for a dispute in which scholarly pursuit risks crossing into the physical violation of a grave. Toby Byng is to remain behind to mind his deedboxes and Sir George Bailey’s interests.