Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023).

• Introduction: Shakespeare, the Bible and the Textual Crisis.- Section I.- Chapter One: Sayers, Satan, Milton, Donne.- Chapter Two: Seeing Darkly, Seeing Visions: Christie’s Bible.- Chapter Three: Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Christie’s Shakespeare.- Section II: Introduction: The New Canon.- Chapter Four: Rival Queens of Crime.- Chapter Five: Let’s Have Eight Other Gaudy Nights.- Chapter Six: Sayers’s Followers: Where the Bodies and the Books are Buried.- Conclusion.

“Bloomfield’s book is well worth reading and provides many valuable contributions to the conversation about the use to which Shakespeare and the Bible are put in detective fiction.” (Keith Jones, Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 15 (1), April, 2025)

Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023).

• Introduction: Shakespeare, the Bible and the Textual Crisis.- Section I.- Chapter One: Sayers, Satan, Milton, Donne.- Chapter Two: Seeing Darkly, Seeing Visions: Christie’s Bible.- Chapter Three: Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Christie’s Shakespeare.- Section II: Introduction: The New Canon.- Chapter Four: Rival Queens of Crime.- Chapter Five: Let’s Have Eight Other Gaudy Nights.- Chapter Six: Sayers’s Followers: Where the Bodies and the Books are Buried.- Conclusion.

“Bloomfield’s book is well worth reading and provides many valuable contributions to the conversation about the use to which Shakespeare and the Bible are put in detective fiction.” (Keith Jones, Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 15 (1), April, 2025)

Jem Bloomfield is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests focus around detective fiction, British mid-century writing, and the reception histories of Shakespeare and the Bible. His books include Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (2016), Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction (2022) and Paths in the Snow: A Literary Journey Through The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2023).

• Introduction: Shakespeare, the Bible and the Textual Crisis.- Section I.- Chapter One: Sayers, Satan, Milton, Donne.- Chapter Two: Seeing Darkly, Seeing Visions: Christie’s Bible.- Chapter Three: Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Christie’s Shakespeare.- Section II: Introduction: The New Canon.- Chapter Four: Rival Queens of Crime.- Chapter Five: Let’s Have Eight Other Gaudy Nights.- Chapter Six: Sayers’s Followers: Where the Bodies and the Books are Buried.- Conclusion.

“Bloomfield’s book is well worth reading and provides many valuable contributions to the conversation about the use to which Shakespeare and the Bible are put in detective fiction.” (Keith Jones, Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 15 (1), April, 2025)