Dr Penberthy, a club member and the General's personal physician, certifies death by natural causes but is unable to state the exact time of death. Lady Dormer dies the next morning, Armistice Day, and that afternoon the General is found dead in his armchair at the Bellona Club. However, should the General die first, nearly everything will go to Lady Dormer's companion, Ann Dorland. On the afternoon of 10 November, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is called to the deathbed of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer, and learns that under the terms of her will he stands to inherit most of her substantial fortune – money sorely needed by his grandsons Robert and George Fentiman. Much of the novel is set in the Bellona Club, a fictional London club for war veterans ( Bellona being a Roman goddess of war). Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L.
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