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Saint Peter's Fair - The Leper of Saint Giles - The Virgin in the Ice

Saint Peter's Fair - The Leper of Saint Giles - The Virgin in the Ice( )
Author: Peters, Ellis
Series title:The Cadfael Chronicles Ser.
ISBN:978-0-316-85518-1
Publication Date:Oct 2000
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $19.99
Book Description:

This volume contains three of Brother Cadfael's Chronicles:

ST PETER'S FAIR. An unseemly quarrel between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury over who shall benefit from the levies on Shrewsbury's annual Fair leaves a merchant dead, and Cadfael is summoned from the peace of his herb garden to practice his skills as a detective. THE LEPER OF ST GILES. Outside the walls of Shrewsbury is St Giles, a sanctuary for the sick, but also...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.5 x 21.6 cm
Book Weight:0.619 Kilograms
Author Biography
Ellis, Peter (Author)
Ellis Peters is the pseudonym for Edith Pargeter, who was born in Horsehay, Shropshire. She was a chemist's assistant from 1933 to 1940 and participated during World War II in the Women's Royal Navy Service. The name "Ellis Peters" was adopted by Edith Pargeter to clearly mark a division between her mystery stories and her other work. Her brother was Ellis and Petra was a friend from Czechoslovakia, thus the name. She came to writing mysteries, she says, "after half a lifetime of novel-writing." Her detective fiction features well-rounded, knowledgeable characters with whom the reader can empathize.

Her most famous literary creation is the medieval monk Brother Cadfael. The blend of history and the formula of the detective story gives Peters's works their popular appeal. As detective hero, Brother Cadfael remains faithful to the requirements of the formula, yet the historical milieu in which he operates is both fully realized and well textured. Peters received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award in 1963 and the Crime Writers Association's Silver Dagger Award in 1981.

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