Brother Cadfael · Book 11
An Excellent Mystery
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780688062507
- Type
- novel
About this book
An Excellent Mystery, the eleventh Brother Cadfael novel, was published in 1985 at 224 pages. It continues the series' hallmark blend: real medieval-history detail about Shrewsbury Abbey and its Benedictine routines, paired with Cadfael's worldly, humane instincts as an investigator.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
An Excellent Mystery is book 11 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Pilgrim of Hate. It is followed by The Raven in the Foregate. 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 9780688062507