- Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character)
Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret to a savage murder. Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Edith Pargeter
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Blackstone Audio, Grijalbo.
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781497671195
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“Brother Cadfael set out from the gatehouse, that Monday afternoon of October, in the year 1139, darkly convinced that something ominous would have happened before he re-entered the great court, though he had no reason to suppose that he would be absent more than an hour or so.”
Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.
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