Devil's Novice
by:
Ellis Peters (author)
The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. In the battle of Lincoln the sheriff of Shropshire is captured and the king himself taken prisoner by his enemies. An exchange of valuable prisoners is arranged and the sheriff is to be recovered in place of a young Welsh lordling, who in turn had...
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The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. In the battle of Lincoln the sheriff of Shropshire is captured and the king himself taken prisoner by his enemies. An exchange of valuable prisoners is arranged and the sheriff is to be recovered in place of a young Welsh lordling, who in turn had been captured in the course of a misguided assault on a convent. But before the exchange can be completed, one captive is murdered. To Brother Cadfael, who first notices the evidence of unnatural death, falls the task of gathering enough clues to prove it.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780708913420 (0708913423)
ASIN: 0708913423
Publish date: 1985-08
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (#8)
bookshelves: film-only, tbr-busting-2013, winter-20132014, published-1983, series, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, medieval5c-16c, betrayal, britain-england Read on December 20, 2013 TV series with Derek JacobiDescription: In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds...
A perfectly adequate mystery. I don’t really have any complaints about it, but neither was it groundbreaking or astounding. It was a nice, undemanding vacation read – I’d read a couple of others in this series, and it was exactly what I expected. I enjoy the medieval/monastic setting.Here, a new nov...
Ellis Peters’, The Devil’s Novice, is the eighth in the Brother Cadfael series. These stories take place during the 1100’s civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda. A young gentleman is brought to the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury by his father and begs entry to the order and so the ...
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