The Assize of the Dying
by Ellis Peters
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When Louis Stevenson is found guilty of murder, he delivers a chilling invitation to the four men responsible for his conviction. A young couple convinced of Stevenson's innocence, determine to unmask the real murderer - before he strikes again.Tags
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WARNING: Possible spoilers included in this review! I checked this audiobook out thinking I was getting a Brother Cadfael book. I should have paid closer attention. Instead of getting a true historical mystery, I got a mystery that was current when it was written. The audio contained two mysteries. They were okay mysteries, but nothing super spectacular. In the first mystery, the heroine got so distracted by love that she didn't even bother to finish solving the mystery, the solution was revealed in a letter. Very disappointing. The second mystery on the audio wasn't that much better. Add that to the disappointment from expecting something else and you get a two star rating from me.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- The Assize of the Dying
- Original publication date
- 1958
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.33)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 7
