Ellis Peters (1913–1995)
Autor(a) de A Morbid Taste for Bones
About the 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 mostrar mais 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
Séries
Obras por Ellis Peters
The Heaven Tree Trilogy Omnibus: The Heaven Tree, the Green Branch, the Scarlet Seed (1960) 465 exemplares
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: Monk's Hood / The Leper of St. Giles / The Sanctuary Sparrow / One Corpse Too Many (1979) 141 exemplares
The Dominic Felse Omnibus (The Piper on The Mountain, Mourning Raga, Death to the Landlords) (1991) 50 exemplares
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: Dead Man's Ransom | The Pilgrim of Hate | An Excellent Mystery (1999) 32 exemplares
The Detective Omnibus (City of Gold and Shadows / Flight of a Witch / Funeral of Figaro) (1992) 28 exemplares
The George Felse Omnibus: Fallen Into the Pit; Death and the Joyful Woman; A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1994) 28 exemplares
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: The Rose Rent | The Hermit of Eyton Forest | The Raven in the Foregate (2001) 24 exemplares
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: A Morbid Taste for Bones / The Raven in the Foregate / The Rose Rent (1999) 23 exemplares
The Devil's Novice / The Disappearance of the Saturnalia Silver / Blind Justice / He Came with the Rain (2000) 6 exemplares
Brother Cadfael: Monk's Hook, the Leper of St. Giles, the Sanctuary Sparrow, One Corpse Too Many [enhanced audiotrack] (1999) 4 exemplares
By This Strange Fire 4 exemplares
Let Nothing You Dismay! 2 exemplares
Don Juan 1 exemplar
The Summer of the Danes / The Holy Thief 1 exemplar
The Duchess and the Doll 1 exemplar
HORTENSIUS, FRIEND OF NERO. 1 exemplar
THE HEREMIT OF EYTON FOREST 1 exemplar
Monk's Hood [abridged] 1 exemplar
The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series books: (2-7) (9-12) (14-17) (19) (21/ final book) 1 exemplar
One Corpse Too Many [abridged] 1 exemplar
The Golden Girl [short story] 1 exemplar
Dekle v zrcalu 1 exemplar
Forbudt for børn : 13 noveller 1 exemplar
The Potter's Field / A Rare Benedictine 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Cadfael Country: Shropshire and the Welsh Borders (1990) — Introdução, algumas edições — 70 exemplares
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling and Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1865) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Catch a Falling Spy | Never Pick up Hitch-Hikers | More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976) 4 exemplares
Historical Whodunits — Prefácio — 3 exemplares
The Confession of Brother Haluin | Murder on Tour: A Rock'n'Roll Mystery | A Wicked Slice (1989) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Hermit of Eyton Forest | Poetic Justice | So Soon Done For — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 3-4 — Original books — 1 exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 1-2 — Original books — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Pargeter, Edith Mary
- Outros nomes
- Peters, Ellis
Redfern, John
Carr, Jolyon
Benedict, Peter - Data de nascimento
- 1913-09-28
- Data de falecimento
- 1995-10-14
- Localização do túmulo
- cremated, ashes scattered
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK - Educação
- Dawley Church of England School
Coalbrookdale High School for Girls - Ocupações
- author
chemist's assistant
Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
historical novelist
translator - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Cartier Diamond Dagger 1993 [1993]
Edgar Allan Poe Award 1963
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England –October 14, 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fictional and non-fictional) were set in Wales and its borderlands, and/or have Welsh protagonists.
During World War II, she worked in an administrative role in the Women's Royal Naval Service, and received the British Empire Medal - BEM.
Pargeter wrote under a number of pseudonyms; it was under the name Ellis Peters that she wrote the highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, many of which were made into films for television.
Membros
Críticas
Iveta, a beautiful and wealthy orphan, is eighteen years old but betrothed to a baron who is sixty. Her greedy guardians have made this bargain for their own personal benefit and are not in the least bothered about her happiness. Joscelin, one of her fiance's squires, is determined to rescue her from this unhappy situation. But before he can do anything, the baron is killed and suspicion falls on Joscelin. Cadfael must find the real killer before Joscelin is hanged for the murder.
An interesting mystery.… (mais)
An interesting mystery.… (mais)
I'm not sure why I picked up this book, it's certainly not my typical genre of reading. However, I was pleasantly surprised. This was a fun, easy little murder mystery that takes place in 12th century Wales. The local Welsh lord has been killed and all signs point to divine intervention. Brother Cadfael teams up with the lord's daughter to find the real killer.
I rarely read mysteries, but am glad this is a series because I would easily pick up another one for a change of pace.
I rarely read mysteries, but am glad this is a series because I would easily pick up another one for a change of pace.
I read many of these many years ago and am reading them again. In a time of political turmoil a well-off merchant is murdered at the Fair. There's a lot of plot!
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Detective Stories (12)
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Historical Fiction (21)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 158
- Also by
- 65
- Membros
- 52,251
- Popularidade
- #291
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 962
- ISBN
- 1,730
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 167
Maud’s efforts to secure the throne have taken a turn for the worst. The Bishop of Winchester won’t support her, lays siege to the town, and herself becomes besieged, escaping at great loss. but in the process both the Abbey at Hyde-Mead and the convent at Wherwell are razed, the latter with both troops and sisters dying in the chapel where they had taken sanctuary.
In August, two brothers from Hyde-Mead arrive at the Abbey at Shrewsbury. The elder, Humilis, is at death’s door. He has been tended on the road by Fidelis, who has indeed been faithful in doing what could be done. When Cadfael treats him, he recognizes an old Crusader, Godfrid Marescot, who formerly had lived on a nearby estate. He’d suffered a terrible wound, rendering him unable to father children, and slowly draining him of life. Fidelis supports his efforts, and in the process Cadfael learns that Fidelis is mute.
Before he was wounded, Marescot was betrothed to Julian of Cruce. When he realized he could not truly be a husband to her, he entered the Benedictines. He sent a trusted aide, Nicholas Harnage, to break the engagement. Now, Harnage, on leave from the Queen’s army, visits his old leader. His mission is a matter of the heart. When he carried the news of the broken engagement, Julian attracted his own attention. Now he asks Humilis for his blessing to pursue her hand, which Humilis grants. Harnage’s hopes are quickly dashed. Arriving at Julian’s brothers estate, he learns he is three years too late. Shortly after he’d brought the news from Marescot, Julian entered the convent–at Wherwell. Knowing what had recently occurred, he is worried–had she escaped or died.
He sets off for Wherwell, stopping briefly at Shrewsbury. What he finds alarms him yet more. He tracks down the prioress, and learns she never arrived, they had no knowledge of her. The focus turns to the four men who escorted her, and particularly the one men, who travelled alone with her the last portion of the journey, Adam Heriet. He is found and claims he had been ordered by his lady to let her complete the last part of the journey alone. When the wife of a jeweler in Winchester is questioned about a ring that had belonged to Julian, she describes Heriet as the seller. Taken into custody, as her longtime guardian, he stoutly denies any wrongdoing but offers no explanation.
Will Julian’s whereabouts, alive or dead be discovered before the life of Humilis, rapidly ebbing away, is discovered?
A sideplot, concerning Brother Urien, who expresses his attraction to two young brothers, Rhun and Fidelis, is handled with grace, even though Urien has acted gracelessly.
And Cadfael? Besides attentive care for Humilis and his last wishes, he plays the soul of discretion in averting what could have been a great scandal for the Abbey. But to say more, would be to say too much! All in all, an excellent mystery, indeed.… (mais)