Brother Cadfael · Book 2
One Corpse Too Many
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN-13
- 9781664423121
- Type
- novel
About this book
One Corpse Too Many, the second Cadfael novel, appeared in 1979 at 207 pages, arriving between A Morbid Taste for Bones and Monk's Hood. It continues the series' grounding in real medieval history, as Cadfael's investigations begin to unfold against the Anarchy, the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud that runs beneath the whole sequence.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
One Corpse Too Many is book 2 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows A Morbid Taste for Bones. It is followed by Monk's Hood. 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 9780754020103
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781664423121