Brother Cadfael · Book 9
Dead Man's Ransom
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780708825983
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Man's Ransom, the ninth Cadfael mystery, was published in 1984 at 224 pages. By this point in the series Ellis Peters had firmly established Cadfael's dual identity -- Shrewsbury Abbey's herbalist and its most perceptive judge of character -- as the engine driving each self-contained investigation.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
Dead Man's Ransom is book 9 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Devil's Novice. It is followed by The Pilgrim of Hate. 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 9780708914076
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708825983