Fallen into the Pit
- Published
- 1 January 1951
- Pages
- 301
- ISBN-13
- 9781568951164
- Type
- novel
About this book
Fallen into the Pit (1951, 301 pages) opens the Inspector George Felse series, written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and introducing the quietly perceptive detective in the fictional Midlands town of Comerford. It's an English village mystery of character and community, closer to the classic Golden Age tradition than Ellis Peters' later Brother Cadfael novels.
Key facts about Fallen into the Pit
Fallen into the Pit is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1951. It runs to 301 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Fallen into the Pit. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781568951164 to find the main one.
Fallen into the Pit is book 1 of 13 in the Inspector George Felse series. The series has 13 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
Fallen into the Pit is book 1 in the Inspector George Felse series. It is followed by Death and the Joyful Woman. 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 9781568951164
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708848395