Death and the Joyful Woman
- Published
- 1 January 1961
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9780792714040
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death and the Joyful Woman (1961, 256 pages) is the second Inspector George Felse novel, and generally considered the series' high point -- it won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It arrives a decade after the series opener, as George's son Dominic begins growing from schoolboy into the young investigator he becomes across later entries.
Key facts about Death and the Joyful Woman
Death and the Joyful Woman is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1961. It runs to 256 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Death and the Joyful Woman. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780792714040 to find the main one.
Death and the Joyful Woman is book 2 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
Death and the Joyful Woman is book 2 in the Inspector George Felse series. It follows Fallen into the Pit. It is followed by Flight of a Witch. 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 9780792714040
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446400688
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781504027076