- Fiction, History, Great Britain in fiction, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character)
Situational twins abound as murder follows theft while abbeys recover from disruption.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Edith Pargeter
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Chivers Word for Word Audio Books, Chivers Audio Books, Warner Futura
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780754075325
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“The messengers arrived during the half hour of chapter, and would not eat, drink or rest, or wash the mud of the roads from their feet, until they had made their way in to the assembly in the chapterhouse, and delivered their charge.”
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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