AbstractsLaw & Legal Studies

A youthful nun is robbed of her new set of gold and ivory false teeth; a muscular physiologist peddles furiously on a stationary bicycle, ostensibly to make an experiment on the process of perspiration; a dissipated murderer listens with absorption to Beethoven's A-Minor Quartet before he brings about his own death; a dog, hurled from an airplane, "explodes" on a rooftop and causes a violent quarrel; an elderly earl goes on a diet of carp's gut and converts himself into something resembling an ape; a deceased uncle refuses to dissolve into the "Light," and consequently becomes a candidate for reincarnation; a handsome young priest is burned alive on a charge of consorting with Satan to bewitch a convent; an adolescent girl's interest in Swinburne contributes to a fatal car accident. [...]