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.