One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002XWUQ0W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 429 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Who was he and why was he there? I appreciate the wonderful way Ellis Peters had with descriptive prose to give me such a vivid sense of the world she has set these characters in. This novel has so much of the activity take place outside the walls of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and it was important to be able to picture exactly what the landscape was like. I also was interested in getting to know Hugh Beringar, presented with a personality which seemed as if it could go toward good or evil and I wasn't quite sure until almost the end of the novel how to react to him. Brother Cadfael has been given a yo. Great Start to An Amazing Detective Series! Robert Bulger While this may be Ms. Peter's first Brother Cadfael mystery, you'll feel like you've known him for years. If you've seen the 90's television series starring Derek Jacobi, I guarantee you'll hear his voice narrating this to you, as Derek Jacobi did such a fine job bringing this character to life. In closing, I think you'll find this quite a great series of period detective novels - and "One Corpse Too Many" is a great way to get to know one of literary world's great detectives - Brother Cadfael!. "Book 2 in a great historical mystery series" according to Amazon Customer. If you like/love historical mysteries and you haven't read Ellis Peter's Brother Cadfael series - you've really been missing out. I started the series in 1982 with number 6, "A Virgin in the Ice," and it's still my favorite. "One Corpse too Many" is the second one and this is where the historical background moves into the foreground. Either "Corpse" or "Virgin" are good places to begin. The first book, "A Morbid Taste for Bones" is interesting, but not a favorite. It functions as a prequel to the series. You don't have to read them in order, but once you get past the earlier books, you do lose
Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy’s clothing, a missing treasure, and a single broken flower . . . With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged. This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. the tiny bit of evidence
This was England before the age of tea and crumpets.” —Los Angeles Times . Long may the Chronicles continue.” —USA Today “Delightful . . . “Each addition to the series is a joy. A colorful and authentic medieval background fraught with swordplay and a challenge to the death.” —Publishers Weekly “You’ll love Brother Cadfael, wily veteran of the Crusades. . .