Found 282 results for "Edith Pargeter"
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Edith Pargeter
outside the monastic enclave, but here, in the enclosed garden within the walls, close to the abbot's fishponds and the ...
One Corpse too Many
by Edith Pargeter
On the nineteenth day of June, when the eminent visitor arrived, Brother Cadfael was in the abbot's garden, trimming off...
Saint Peter's Fair
by Edith Pargeter
It began at the normal daily chapter in the Benedictine monastery of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, of Shrewsbury, on the t...
The virgin in the ice
by Edith Pargeter
It was early in November of 1139 that the tide of civil war, lately so sluggish and inactive, rose suddenly to sweep ove...
Monk's Hood
by Edith Pargeter
On this particular morning at the beginning of December, in the year 1138, Brother Cadfael came to chapter in tranquilit...
The pilgrim of hate
by Edith Pargeter
They were together in Brother Cadfael’s hut in the herbarium, in the afternoon of the twenty-fifth day of May, and the t...
The Leper of Saint Giles
by Edith Pargeter
Brother Cadfael set out from the gatehouse, that Monday afternoon of October, in the year 1139, darkly convinced that so...
The summer of the Danes
by Edith Pargeter
them, whether from exhaustion or policy, and a strange calm had settled over the country, almost peace. In the Fens, the...
The hermit of Eyton Forest
by Edith Pargeter
IT WAS on the eighteenth day of October of that year 1142 that Richard Ludel, hereditary tenant of the manor of Eaton, d...
Dead Man's Ransom
by Edith Pargeter
ON THAT DAY, WHICH WAS THE SEVENTH OF FEBruary of the year of Our Lord 1141, they had offered special prayers at every o...
The devil’s novice
by Edith Pargeter
IN THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER OF THAT YEAR OF Our Lord,1140, two lords of Shropshire manors, one north of the town of Shrew...
An excellent mystery
by Edith Pargeter
AUGUST CAME in, that summer of 1141, tawny as a lion and somnolent and purring as a heartside cat.
The potter’s field
by Edith Pargeter
Saint Peter's Fair of that year, 1143, was one week past, and they were settling down again into the ordinary routine of...
The heretic’s apprentice
by Edith Pargeter
On the nineteenth day of June, when the eminent visitor arrived, Brother Cadfael was in the abbot's garden, trimming off...
The raven in the foregate
by Edith Pargeter
Abbot Radulfus came to chapter, on this first day of December, with a preoccupied and frowning face, and made short work...
The Rose Rent
by Edith Pargeter
BY REASON OF THE PROLONGED COLD, WHICH LINGERED far into April, and had scarcely mellowed when the month of May began, e...
The Sanctuary Sparrow
by Edith Pargeter
It began, as the greatest of storms do begin, as a mere tremor in the air, a thread of sound so distant and faint, yet s...
The Confession of Brother Haluin
by Edith Pargeter
THE worst of the winter came early, that year of 1142.