The Leper of Saint Giles
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 226
- ISBN-13
- 9781569382677
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Leper of Saint Giles, the fifth book in the series, was published in 1981 at 226 pages. It continues Ellis Peters's project of rendering Shrewsbury Abbey and Cadfael's monastic life with real medieval-history rigor, set against the ongoing backdrop of the Stephen-and-Maud civil war that runs through the series.
Key facts about The Leper of Saint Giles
Ellis Peters wrote The Leper of Saint Giles, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1981. The book has 226 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781569382677 to find the main one.
The Leper of Saint Giles is book 5 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
The Leper of Saint Giles is book 5 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows Saint Peter's Fair. It is followed by The Virgin in the Ice. 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 9780446404372
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781569382677