A PUBLIC BODY
by Raymond Flynn
A Public Body ($10.95 paperback original; Jan. 1; 250 pp.; 0- 340-64975-5): Eddathorpe Councillor William (``Klondike Bill'') Lynch's theft of the local mayoral regalia seems nothing more than a childish act of revenge against the new mayor, his much-unloved wife Muriel—until the missing properties are discovered in the vicinity of Muriel's cooling corpse, with Bill the obvious suspect for Inspector Robert Graham (Seascape with Body, not reviewed).