When the Hearse Goes By — Deloris Stanton Forbes

Five female friends, close since elementary school days, find themselves with a serious dilemma. They are the keepers of a 20-year-old corpse (the corpse not the man) that they must dispose of immediately and even though one of the women is a respected mortician the solution is not an easy one. Especially since the body belongs to a murder victim and it seems probable that Jane, Rissa, Penny, Gwenda or Primrose is the killer. That it happened so long ago who remembers? How does Polly fit into the picture? Can 80-year-old Dietrich H. Fenster save the day?