Inspector George Felse · Book 2
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.
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