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.