Cadfael Country

Cadfael Country PDF Author: Rob Talbot
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316905626
Category : Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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By the authors of The Cotswolds, The English Lakes and Shakespeare's Avon this book is a celebration of the world of Ellis Peters and the medieval sleuth she has created, Brother Cadfael. It takes the form of an historical pilgrimage through the wild border county of Shropshire.

Cadfael Country

Cadfael Country PDF Author: Rob Talbot
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316905626
Category : Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
By the authors of The Cotswolds, The English Lakes and Shakespeare's Avon this book is a celebration of the world of Ellis Peters and the medieval sleuth she has created, Brother Cadfael. It takes the form of an historical pilgrimage through the wild border county of Shropshire.

Adapting Detective Fiction

Adapting Detective Fiction PDF Author: Neil McCaw
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847063071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The Benediction of Brother Cadfael

The Benediction of Brother Cadfael PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892964499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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An omnibus volume containing the first two chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the remarkable medieval detective, features A Morbid Taste for Bones and One Corpse Too Many, as well as photographs and text from Cadfael Country. 17,500 first printing.

The Holy Thief

The Holy Thief PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497671590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Strangers seek refuge at the abbey as floodwaters rise, a body falls, and a relic vanishes—in this “top drawer” mystery featuring the twelfth-century monk (Chicago Sun-Times) In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, and Brother Cadfael fears trouble has come in with them. Among the first arrivals is Brother Tutilo, a young Benedictine with a guileless face and—to Brother Cadfael’s shrewd eyes—a mischievous intelligence. The second group, a ribald French troubadour, his servant, and a girl with the voice of an angel, seems to Brother Cadfael a catalyst for disaster. All of Cadfael’s fears become manifest as rising floodwaters endanger the abbey’s most sacred relic, the remains of Saint Winifred. When the bones disappear and a dead body is found, Brother Cadfael knows carnal and spiritual intrigues are afoot. Now, in a world that believes in signs and miracles, Brother Cadfael needs his prayers answered—as well as some heavenly guidance to crucial clues—to catch a killer hell-bent on murder.

A Rare Benedictine

A Rare Benedictine PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892963973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. Here, her chronicles continue with a Christmas story, a tale of robbery and attempted murder, and a narrative of Brother Cadfael's early years.

The Virgin in the Ice

The Virgin in the Ice PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497671205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award–winning author. The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen-year-old girl of great beauty, and their companion, a young Benedictine nun. The trio never reaches Shrewsbury, having disappeared somewhere in the wild countryside. Cadfael is afraid for these three lost lambs, but another call for help sends him to the church of Saint Mary. A wounded monk, found naked and bleeding by the roadside, will surely die without Cadfael’s healing arts. Why this holy man has been attacked and what his fevered ravings reveal soon give Brother Cadfael a clue to the fate of the missing travelers. Now Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find them. The road will lead him to a chill and terrible murder and a tale of passion gone awry. And at journey’s end awaits a vision of what is best, and worst, in humankind.

Saint Peter's Fair

Saint Peter's Fair PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Cadfael Chronicles
ISBN: 9780751547078
Category : Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Saint Peter's Fair is a grand festive event, attracting tradesmen from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to bring some much needed gaiety to the town of Shrewsbury. Until, that is, the body of a wealthy trader is found in the River Severn. Was Thomas of Bristol the victim of murderous thieves? And if so, why were his valuables abandoned nearby? Brother Cadfael offers to help the merchant's lovely niece Emma. But while he is seaching for the killer, the man's wares are ransacked and two more men are murdered. Emma almost certainly knows more than she is telling, as others will soon realise. Cadfael desperately races to save the young girl, knowing that in a country at war with itself, betrayal can come from any direction, and even good intentions can kill.

The Sanctuary Sparrow

The Sanctuary Sparrow PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497671256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Medieval monk Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery—in the Silver Dagger Award–winning mystery series. In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound—a hunt in full cry. Pursued by a drunken mob, the quarry is running for its life. When the frantic creature bursts into the nave to claim sanctuary, Brother Cadfael finds himself fighting off armed townsmen to save a terrified young man. Liliwin, a wandering minstrel who performed at the wedding of a local goldsmith’s son, has been accused of robbery and murder. The cold light of morning, however, will show his supposed victim, the miserly craftsman, still lives, although a strongbox lies empty. Brother Cadfael believes Liliwin is innocent, but finding the truth and the treasure before Liliwin’s respite in sanctuary runs out may uncover a deadlier sin than thievery—a desperate love that nothing, not even the threat of hanging, can stop. The Sanctuary Sparrow is the seventh book in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, featuring a “wily veteran of the Crusades.” The historical mystery series earned Ellis Peters a Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger Award—and a legion of devoted fans (Los Angeles Times).

The Rose Rent

The Rose Rent PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497671418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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The sleuthing monk unravels a thorny case of murder in this “accomplished whodunit meticulously wrought with a wealth of medieval detail” (Booklist). A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses by June 22. On that day the young widow Perle must receive one white rose as rent for the house she has given to benefit the abbey, or the contract is void. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and is found murdered beside the hacked rosebush. The abbey’s wise herbalist, Brother Cadfael, follows the trail of bloodied petals. He knows the lovely widow’s dowry is far greater with her house included, and she will likely wed again. Before Cadfael can ponder if a greedy suitor has done this dreadful deed, another crime is committed. Now the good monk must thread his way through a tangle more tortuous than the widow’s thorny bushes.

Brother Cadfael's Penance

Brother Cadfael's Penance PDF Author: Ellis Peters
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780751513707
Category : Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The cloistered walls of Shrewsbury Abbey have always protected Brother Cadfael from the raging Civil War. But when fighting escalates between Empress Maud and King Stephen, the war takes a deadly step closer to him. Taken prisoner in the battle for Maud's land is Olivier de Bretagne, Brother Cadfael's own son- born as a result of a brief encouter thirty years earlier. Now Brother Cadfael resolves to plead for his son's release at a peace conference scheduled to take place in Coventry; but there is no sign of Olivier there. After much soul searching, Cadfael makes the difficult decision to break his monastic vows, leaving Coventry without permission- because he knows he must do everything in his power to find his son.