More on That Member Mystery: A Note on the Origin of the Story of the Uncircumsized Corpse in the Bath in Dorothy L. Sayers' Whose Body?

Two posts ago, you may recall, I discussed the matter of whether the bathtub corpse in Dorothy L. Sayers' debut mystery, Whose Body?, had a circumsized or uncircumsized member. I concluded that it obviously was circumsized, though a certain, um, body of opinion over the decades has pronounced--errantly, it seems to me--otherwise. Where did this idea that the bathtub body was uncircumsized originate? I've been on the prowl on this mystery, my dear readers, busily detecting; and here's what I found out.Like a Ross Macdonald baffler, the answer to this outre riddle seems to lie decades in the past. Old sins have long shadows, don't you know. In the late Leroy Lad Panek's Edgar nominated Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain 1914-1940 (1979), Panek in his chapter on Dorothy L. Sayers writes:in her original version of [Whose Body?], [Lord Peter] Wimsey deduces that the body in the bath is not Sir Reuben Levy's because it is uncirumsized. Her publisher demurred at this and…