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From: Legacy
Date: 19981031
Author:M, Dale
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Edited and with an Afterword by Catherine J. Golden and Denise D. Knight. New York: Feminist Press, 1997. 244 pp. $18.95.
Unpunished: A Mystery (1929) is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's arguably tongue-in-cheek detective novel, combining several of her pet peeves: the evils of patriarchy, women's dependence on men, and the parasitic relation that results from women's sex dependence in the culture generally. The novel begins when the multiply-murdered body of Wade Vaughn is discovered: poisoned, stabbed, shot, strangled, and bludgeoned. Do the subsequent murders count ...
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