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.
Key facts about The Grass Widow's Tale
Ellis Peters wrote The Grass Widow's Tale, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1968. The book has 192 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708849958 to find the main one.
The Grass Widow's Tale is book 7 of 13 in the Inspector George Felse series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with Fallen into the Pit (1951).
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
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