Peter finally manages to crack the case through knowing of the connection between the Levys and Freke. Freke's house is close to the block of flats where Thipps lives and close to the Battersea Hospital. He gets Bunter to befriend Freke's butler/servant, who says that the surgeon is up late at night often, dissecting bodies for his research. Peter finds that Freke killed a workhouse inhabitant, who had been injured, and tidied him up to look like Levy, and then put his body in Thipps' bathroom.
He then invited Sir Reuben to come to his house one night to discuss an investment and asked him not to tell anyone where he was going. Levy comes along, and Freke kills him and brings his body to the hospital for dissection by medical students.
Peter has to arrange an exhumation and Lady Levy identifies the "pauper's body, as her husband. Freke knowing that he has been caught writes a confession, before he is arrested.
Peter decides to arrange a dinner party for the Thippses.
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