Inspector George Felse · Book 6
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.
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…
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