Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart
- Published
- 1 January 1967
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN-13
- 9780446400725
- Type
- novel
About this book
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart (1967, 223 pages) is the sixth Inspector George Felse novel, continuing the family saga that runs alongside the mysteries -- George, his wife Bunty, and their son Dominic maturing across the series' near three-decade real-time span.
Key facts about Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1967. It runs to 223 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780446400725 to find the main one.
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart is book 6 of 13 in the Inspector George Felse series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with Fallen into the Pit (1951).
Additionally, Ellis Peters writes Brother Cadfael 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 Inspector George Felse
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart is book 6 in the Inspector George Felse series. It follows The Piper on the Mountain. It is followed by The Grass Widow's Tale. See the full Inspector George Felse reading order.
Long before Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters (the pen name of Edith Pargeter) wrote thirteen contemporary mysteries centred on George Felse, a quietly perceptive detective inspector in the fictional Midlands town of Comerford, and — as the series goes on — his wife Bunty and their son Dominic, who takes over as the effective lead investigator in several later entries as he grows from schoolboy to young adult. Beginning with Fallen into the Pit (1951), written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446400725
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708837818
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781850577423