Leonidas Witherall who has a remarkable likeness to Shakespeare,is not only the writer of outlandish thrillers,but an amateur detective. This series is light-hearted and not to be taken too seriously. In 'Dead Ernest' Witherall discovers a dead body in a freezer delivered wrongly to his house.After a number of unlikely events which lead him ever deeper into the mire,he finally extricates himself with the help of his cleaner Mrs Mullet and other characters. ( )