Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 087972773X / Publisher: Popular Press 1, January 1998
A collection of essays on Ellis Peters' mystery novels and stories featuring a 12th-century Benedictine monk/detective. Topics range from the moral world view Peters creates to Cadfael's Welsh heritage. No index. Paper edition (774-8), $17.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Detective, monk, father, herbalist, Crusader, sailor, Celt, friend - Ellis Peters bestows all these attributes on her twelfth-century Benedictine monk-detective Brother Cadfael. As a detective Cadfael uses his analytic mind to solve the crimes and administer justice - as he sees it. As a man of God, he also dispenses mercy along with his cordials.Just how the soldier-turned-monk solves the mysteries through his various ministries challenges mystery-lovers to seek for reasons - and the answers in the essays are as simple and sweet as Cadfael's cordials and sometimes just as surprising.
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