The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael - Softcover

Peters, Donada; Peters, Ellis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751511056 ISBN 13: 9780751511055

Publisher: Little Brown and Company, 1995

Synopsis

Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. As he arrives at Saint Giles the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride, looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians, and the groom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. With his usual astuteness he suspects that this union may be more damned than blessed. He is horrifically proved right when a savage murder disrupts the May-December marriage leaving Brother Cadfael with a dark and terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing- and a secret- are hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles and Brother Cadfael's skills must diagnose a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellis Peters is one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter who wrote several books under her own name and also Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr and John Redfern. She was the recipient of the Crime Writers Association and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. She died in 1995.

Review:

'Soothing, but no shortage of mayhem.' OBSERVER

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0751511056
• ISBN 13: 9780751511055
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223