Unnatural Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery - Dorothy L. Sayers

Descriere Unnatural Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery - Dorothy L. Sayers

\n \nLord Peter Wimsey and his friend Chief Inspector Parker are told about the death, in late 1925, of an elderly woman named Agatha Dawson who had been suffering from terminal cancer. She was being cared for by Mary Whittaker, her great-niece and a trained nurse. Miss Dawson had an extreme aversion to making a will, believing that Miss Whittaker, her only known relative, would naturally inherit everything. Wimsey is intrigued in spite of the fact that there is no evidence of any crime (a post-mortem found no sign of foul play), nor any apparent motive (on Miss Dawson's death her estate did indeed pass, as she had expected and wished, to her great-niece).\n \n \n\n \nIn Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction before Stonewall (2017), Noah Stewart described Mary Whitaker as being to my knowledge the most clearly delineated homosexual character in Golden Age detective fiction, despite the word 'lesbian' never being used, and she's depicted as enticing a young girl into a life of homosexuality. The episode in which Mary Whittaker is kissed by Wimsey is the closest that a writer in 1927 would be able to come to saying that a character was a lesbian and that kissing a man made her want to vomit. Laura Vorachek argued that, in the novel, Sayers attempts to challenge the prevalent cultural associations of blackness and criminality.\n

Detalii

Brand

Ancient Wisdom Publications

Categorie

ENSTK

EAN / GTIN

9781957990187

Magazine

1

Disponibilitate

in stock