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.
Key facts about One Corpse Too Many
One Corpse Too Many is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1979. It runs to 207 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of One Corpse Too Many. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781664423121 to find the main one.
One Corpse Too Many is book 2 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
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