Detecting Wimsey Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction

294 pp. bib, appendix, index, illus. by the author. Eds. Emily E. Auger & Janet Brennan Croft.

TOC/TRANSFORMATIONS & TRANSGRESSIONS

1. ""All Nerves and Nose"": Lord Peter Wimsey as Wounded Healer...

2. ""Changing, Fearfully Changing"": Polarization and Transformation in...Strong Poison

3. ""Bloody Farce"": Irony, Farce, and Mortality in... Have His Carcase

4. ""A Comedy of Masks"": Lord Peter as Harlequin

5. ""A Ring of Good Bells"": Providence and Judgment in...Nine Tailors

6. ""Beneath That Ancient Roof"": The House as Symbol

7. ""Eve's Sharp Apple"": Five Transgressing Women...

8. ""The Perilous Synthesis"" Sacred and Profane Love in... Thrones, Dominations /

REFLECTIONS

9. Even the Parrot Knows Better...

10. ""A Bloomsbury Blue-Stocking""...

11. Images of Judaism and Anti-Semitism...

12. ""Cat o' Mary""

13. Why We Honor the Centenary of Dorothy L. Sayers...



Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the U. of Waterloo from 1962 until 1992 and was an active artist, poet, fiction writer, and Inklings scholar.