SeriesBrother Cadfael
Series author: Ellis Peters
- A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters
- A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
- One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
- Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters
- Saint Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
- The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters
- The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
- The Sanctuary Sparrow by Ellis Peters
- The Devil's Novice by Ellis Peters
- Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters
- The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters
- An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters
- The Raven in the Foregate by Ellis Peters
- The Rose Rent by Ellis Peters
- The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters
- The Confession of Brother Haluin by Ellis Peters
- The Heretic's Apprentice by Ellis Peters
- The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters
- The Summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters
- The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
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Brother Cadfael's Book of Days by Ellis Peters 46 copies | companion |
The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael by Robin Whiteman 160 copies, 1 review | companion |
Cadfael Country: Shropshire and the Welsh Borders by Rob Talbot 65 copies, 1 review | companion |
Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden: An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses by Robin Whiteman 243 copies, 3 reviews | companion |
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- This is a series of British crime/mystery novels set in the 12th century, featuring the Benedictine monk-herbalist-detective Brother Cadfael of Shrewsbury Abbey in Shropshire. Cadfael himself is a Welshman; his full name is Cadfael ap (son of) Meilyr ap Dafydd. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil war between the forces of King Stephen and Empress Maud. Several true historical events are described or referred to in the books. The series is discussed in "Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael" by Edward J. Rielly. in: The Detective as Historian ed. by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. (Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University, 2000), pp. 60-75. (English, Unclassified)
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