Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $24 (196p) ISBN 978-0-89296-381-2
Brother Cadfael, 12th-century herbalist, sleuth and sometime cupid, outdoes himself in this, his 16th chronicle, in which Peters imbues the familiar territory of murder, young love and odious villainry with fresh vigor and new subtleties. Elave,...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $25 (232p) ISBN 978-0-89296-404-8
This first American publication of a novel, written in 1964, in the series featuring modern police sleuth George Felse proves that Peters, best known for her Brother Cadfael mysteries set in medieval Shrewsbury, was as much a top-notch mystery...
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Ellis Peters, Author Fawcett Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-20819-9
In this mystery featuring 12th-century Brother Cadfael, a Welsh lord captured by the English is to be exchanged for Gilbert Prestcote, sheriff of Shropshire, who is held by the Welsh. When Prestcote dies in Welsh hands, Cadfael suspects murder and...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (164p) ISBN 978-0-89296-349-2
The worldly-wise and compassionate Brother Cadfael makes a welcome, 15th appearance. On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to the abbot and Brother Cadfael that 18 years previously he had fallen in love with Bertrade de Clary, whose mother had...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-40058-9
In Peters's 17th mystery featuring Brother Cadfael, the 12th-century monk takes investigative action when a young woman's body is discovered in a field newly tilled by his Benedictine abbey. According to PW , Brother Cadfael is ``at his most sober...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40146-3
This trio of novels by the author of the acclaimed Brother Cadfael mysteries features Detective Chief Inspector George Felse, said to be among the best-portrayed British policemen in fiction today. (May)
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $6.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-446-40363-4
The 19th Brother Cadfael mystery. (Mar.)
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $6.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-446-40018-3
Twelfth-century monk and sleuth Brother Cadfael, making his 18th appearance, must go deep into Wales on a pilgrimage of Church diplomacy. ( Nov. )
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89296-290-7
Brother Cadfael, the 11th century Benedictine monk who functions admirably as healer, matchmaker and sleuth, marshals his considerable talents to solve two murders in this well-plotted but somewhat slick mystery. Ten-year-old Richard Ludel, a bright
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-89296-519-9
Originally published in 1951, but just now making its first American appearance, this mystery launched Peters's Inspector Felse series. Set in Britain just after WW II, the main sleuth here is not actually George Felse but his 13-year-old son...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $16.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-89296-419-2
Peter's 17th mystery featuring Brother Cadfael finds the 12th-century monk at his most sober and reflective, but his detecting talents are as dazzling as ever. When a newly tilled field recently given to the Benedictine abbey yields the hastily...
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $17.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-89296-524-3
Less predictable and far more complex than many of the 18 previous Brother Cadfael chronicles, this 12th-century mystery pits the sacred against the secular, and cleric against cleric. A sub-prior and his young novice appeal to the abbey of St....
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Ellis Peters, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-89296-599-1
In Brother Cadfael's 20th chronicle, Peters deftly binds the medieval monk's new adventure with family ties, moving from issues intensely public to problems determinedly private. Olivier de Bretagne, who (unknown to himself) is Brother Cadfael's son,
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Ellis Peters, Author, Roy Morgan, Author Mysterious Press $34 (168p) ISBN 978-0-89296-516-8
Peters's mysteries, both modern and medieval, are set in Shropshire. The author of the enormously popular Brother Cadfael series here brings the grace and intensity of her prose to this finely detailed look at her home shire in western England....
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Ellis Peters, Author, Jennifer Williams, Editor William Morrow & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06982-7
In this 13th mystery in the Brother Cadfel series, a beautiful widow rents part of her estate to the brothers of Shrewsbury Abbey for the modest sum of one rose from a certain bush, per year, and all are happy with this arrangement for three years....
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