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.
Key facts about Dead Man's Ransom
Ellis Peters wrote Dead Man's Ransom, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1984. The book has 224 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708825983 to find the main one.
Dead Man's Ransom is book 9 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
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