A Rare Benedictine
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 150
- ISBN-13
- 9781784080501
- Type
- collection
About this book
A Rare Benedictine, published in 1988, is a standalone entry in Brother Cadfael without a numbered position, arriving between The Hermit of Eyton Forest and The Confession of Brother Haluin.
Key facts about A Rare Benedictine
Ellis Peters wrote A Rare Benedictine, a collection on our list. It has been out since 1988. The book has 150 pages.
We list 1 edition of this collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781784080501 to find the main one.
A Rare Benedictine is book 15 of 21 in the Brother Cadfael series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977).
Additionally, Ellis Peters writes Inspector George Felse as a separate series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and cozy mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Brother Cadfael's Penance is the latest published Ellis Peters book on file, from 1994.
About Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters was the principal pen name of Edith Pargeter, a prolific British author best known for the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, a series of historical mysteries set in a twelfth-century Benedictine abbey in Shrewsbury, England, and featuring a Welsh monk who came to the cloister after a worldly life as a soldier and Crusader. See every Ellis Peters book in order.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
A Rare Benedictine is book 15 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Hermit of Eyton Forest. It is followed by The Confession of Brother Haluin. See the full Brother Cadfael reading order.
Brother Cadfael is a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey in 1120s-1140s England who came to the cloister late in life, after decades as a Crusader, sailor and soldier of fortune — worldly experience that makes him the abbey's herbalist, its most perceptive judge of character, and its de facto detective whenever a body turns up on abbey grounds or in the surrounding Shropshire countryside. Working alongside (and sometimes at odds with) the local sheriff's officers, Cadfael investigates murders set against the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781784080501