Saint Peter's Fair
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 268
- ISBN-13
- 9781433264818
- Type
- novel
About this book
Saint Peter's Fair, the fourth Cadfael novel, was published in 1981 at 268 pages, following Monk's Hood and preceding The Leper of Saint Giles. As in every entry, Cadfael works alongside -- and sometimes at odds with -- the local sheriff's officers, his herbalist's knowledge and worldly past giving him an investigative edge.
Key facts about Saint Peter's Fair
Ellis Peters wrote Saint Peter's Fair, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1981. The book has 268 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781433264818 to find the main one.
Saint Peter's Fair is book 4 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
Saint Peter's Fair is book 4 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows Monk's Hood. It is followed by The Leper of Saint Giles. 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 9780751514001
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433264818