The Potter's Field

Book 17 of 20: The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael

Peters, Ellis (Edith Pargeter)

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ISBN 10: 0892964197 ISBN 13: 9780892964192

Published by The Mysterious Press, New York, 1990

Language: English

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A hint of wear to tail of spine else a fine copy in fine dustjacket. The seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael. ; Octavo; 230 pages.

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Title

The Potter's Field

Publisher

The Mysterious Press, New York

Publication Date

1990

Language

English

ISBN 10

0892964197

ISBN 13

9780892964192

Binding

Hardcover

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First US Edition.

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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After acquiring a potter's field, the monks of the Benedictine Abbey discover the remains of a murdered woman while plowing one day, and soon call upon Brother Cadfael to solve the mystery

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Peter's 17th mystery featuring Brother Cadfael finds the 12th-century monk at his most sober and reflective, but his detecting talents are as dazzling as ever. When a newly tilled field recently given to the Benedictine abbey yields the hastily buried body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael takes a keen and immediate interest in the situation. Ruald, the former tenant of the land, entered the abbey as a novice a year earlier, abandoning his beautiful, young and extremely resentful wife, Generys. She has since mysteriously disappeared. Though it seems likely that the body is hers, Ruald is quickly cleared of suspicion via an unlikely source. Sulien Blount, a monk fleeing homeward from the devastating civil war near his own abbey, has solid proof that Generys was recently seen alive. When a second suspect, an itinerant peddlar, is arrested in connection with the murder, Sulien is again able to clear him. Brother Cadfael, deeply troubled, feels that Sulien knows much more than he is saying. An unusual air of melancholy pervades this novel as war, illness and human frailties take their tolls on the weary citizens of Shrewsbury. Created with Peters's consummate skill, Brother Cadfael's world is here seen through a darker glass.
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