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.
Key facts about An Excellent Mystery
Ellis Peters wrote An Excellent Mystery, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1985. The book has 224 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780688062507 to find the main one.
An Excellent Mystery is book 11 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
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