Edith Mary Pargeter was born on September 28, 1913 in Horsehay in Shropshire where she lived all her life long. After studies in a college of Oxford, she works in a
pharmacy of Dawley between 1933 and 1940. It is during this period, in 1936, which she writes her the first two novels. In 1940, she engages in Women's Royal Navy service and receives
in 1944, British Empire medal. During the war, she publishes two other novels, Ordinary people (1941) and She goes to war (1942). After the war, she publishes several other
novels, but it is in 1951 that she writes for the first time a detective novel ( Fallen into the pit ). In this novel, appears the Felse sergeant, who will return in other investigations.
Various novels separate its first novel-police officer from the second in 1959, the Mask of death, which she publishes under the pseudonym of Ellis Peters. The recognition arrives with
its fourth novel, Death and the Joyful which gives to her the Edgar Poe of the best novel decreed by Mystery Writers of America.
It is in 1977, that it creates the character of Cadfael, a Welsh monk, herbalist in an abbey. He appears in Traffic of relics and will continue his adventures
during twenty enthralling novels. Brother Cadafel makes penitence, written in 1994, will be the last novel of Edith Pargeter. She left us on October 14, 1995,
at the 82 years age.
The serie of books Brother Cadfael is wonderful. Amazingly good for a mediaval intrigue. Brother Cadfael is no an ordinary welsh monk. He is at first an herbologist who can' t stand injustice and consequently often inquires crimes in the abbaye of Shrewsbury.
But more interesting, Brother Cadfael had a a tumultuous life before ... Knight at the Cruisades, fisherman in the Mediterranean sea, lover of few women, father of an unknown son ... And that monk is the main character of Ellis Peter's books.
The books are amazing stories where murders and mysteries are to be solved. The stories are well built and carried out. The characters are really interesting, sometimes a glimps of their past comes out, they have a human dimension and moreover, everything is described as it were, as rude, as ugly and hard life was. Simple delicious to read ,)
NOVELS :
1977 : A Morbid Taste for Bones (year 1137)
1979 : One Corpse Too Many (year 1138)
1980 : Monk's Hood (year 1138)
1981 : Saint Peter's Fair (year 1139)
1981 : The Leper of Saint Giles (year 1139)
1982 : The Virgin in the Ice (year 1139)
1983 : The Sanctuary Sparrow (year 1140)
1983 : The Devil's Novice (year 1140)
1984 : Dead Man's Ransom (year 1141)
1984 : The Pilgrim of Hate (year 1141)
1985 : An Excellent Mystery (year 1141)
1986 : The Raven in the Foregate (year 1141)
1986 : The Rose Rent (year 1142)
1988 : The Hermit of Eyton Forest (year 1142)
1988 : The Confession of Brother Haluin (year 1142)
1990 : The Heretic's Apprentice (year 1143)
1990 : The Potter's Field (year 1143)
1991 : The Summer of the Danes (year 1144)
1992 : The Holy Thief (year 1144)
1994 : Brother Cadfael's Penance (year 1145 )
SHORT STORIES :
1998 : A Rare Benedictine :
« A Light on the Road to Woodstock » (year 1120)
« The Price of Light » (year 1135)
« Eye Witness » (year 1139 ?)
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