Review of a novel, 'Sound Mind Dead body' by Dave Warner – a collection of editing comments part 1

Sound Mind Dead Body was a novel that offered up some curious text. The peak point of amusement comes when the author offers his readers the dimensions of a gardener’s shed. 

To understand this text, you need first understand that a valuable item of jewellery has been lost from the property. A male character named Willets is in search of the jewellery.

“It [a door] creaked slowly inwards, revealing a space no more than six foot high, about eight feet deep and the width of one and a half Willets” (Chapter 7, page 74)

Can someone tell me? What is the equivalent in feet of a Willet? Does one recognise a Willet as being the distance between the gentleman’s shoulders (as would befitting to the width of a shed). Or is a Willet identified to the gentleman’s height? 

Shalom,

Ozhamada

Other humour: 

-              Chapter 4 opens with some of the characters at a town “Shagwell”. In reality, there is no Shagwell; only Shadwell. The author may have had Austin Powers on his mind!

-              In Chapter 10 Willets arrives at a pharmacy with an open soup pail full of tea. He asks the pharmacist to test the tea for evidence of poison, Willets had done well to travel to the pharmacy, with an open soup pail, on his motorbike.