The Potter's Field
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 198
- ISBN-13
- 9780747229308
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Potter's Field, published in 1989 at 198 pages, arrives between The Heretic's Apprentice and The Summer of the Danes as the seventeenth entry. Like the rest of the series, its self-contained case is investigated by a monk whose late calling to the cloister, after decades as a Crusader, makes him the abbey's sharpest reader of character.
Key facts about The Potter's Field
The Potter's Field is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1989. It runs to 198 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Potter's Field. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780747229308 to find the main one.
The Potter's Field is book 18 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 Potter's Field is book 18 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Heretic's Apprentice. It is followed by The Summer of the Danes. 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 9780747229308