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A rare Benedictine : the advent of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury

Peters, Ellis 1913-1995 (author.).

Summary: Three vintage tales reveal how a former crusader became literature & rsquo;s greatest mystery-solving monk & ldquo;Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured. & rdquo; So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine & mdash;three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery featuring the monastic sleuth who has become the best-loved ecclesiastical detective since Father Brown. Although Cadfael has appeared in twenty novel-length chronicles, the story of his entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers. Now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.

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ISBN: 9781497671652
ISBN: 1497671655
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: New York, NY : MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, 2014.
Copyright: ©1988

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Formatted Contents Note:

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Maps; Introduction; A Light on the Road to Woodstock; The Price of Light; Eye Witness; Preview: A Morbid Taste for Bones; Glossary of Terms; A Guide to Welsh Pronunciation; Copyright.