The Second Cadfael Omnibus
by Ellis Peters
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael (Collections and Selections — 4-6)
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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 a possible refuge for show more a wanted man. When a member of a wedding party is savagely murdered, Brother Cadfael finds himself at St Giles as herbalist and as detective in search of the killer. THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE. In the winter of 1139 civil war brings refugees to Shrewsbury in search of sanctuary. But two orphans and their companion, a nun, don't arrive from Worcester, and Cadfael is despatched from the Abbey to try and locate them in the harsh winter landscape of frost and snow. show lessTags
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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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- Canonical title
- The Second Cadfael Omnibus
- Alternate titles
- St. Peter's Fair; The Virgin in the Ice; The Leper of Saint Giles
- Original publication date
- 2000
- People/Characters
- Hugh Beringar; Brother Cadfael; Brother Edmund [Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, infirmarer]; Sister Magdalen; Brother Mark; Prior Robert Pennant (show all 13); Abbot Radulfus; Olivier de Bretagne; Huon de Domville; Yves Hugonin; Iveta de Massard; Agnes Picard; Sir Godfrid Picard
- Important places
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK (12th century)
- Important events
- Nineteen Year Winter (1135 | 1154)
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
