Inspector George Felse · Book 7
The Grass Widow's Tale
- Published
- 1 January 1968
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780708849958
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Grass Widow's Tale (1968, 192 pages) is the seventh Inspector George Felse novel, continuing Ellis Peters' English small-town mysteries of character and community in the years following the Edgar-winning Death and the Joyful Woman.
Its place in Inspector George Felse
The Grass Widow's Tale is book 7 in the Inspector George Felse series. It follows Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart. It is followed by The House of Green Turf. 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 9780708849958
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754074007