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Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Edith Pargeter
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore, Chivers Audio Books, Warner Futura
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- Italian, Swedish, German, cze
- ISBN
- 9780449212257
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“ABBOT RADULFUS CAME TO CHAPTER, ON THIS first day of December, with a preoccupied and frowning face, and made short work of the various trivialities brought up by his obedientiaries.”
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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