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The Potter's Field by Ellis Peters

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Book name: The Potter's Field (2024)
Category: Mystery
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Pages: 217 pages
ISBN13: 0446400580
ISBN: 0446400580
Language: English
Publication data: Sept. 1, 1991, 7 a.m.
August, 1143. The body of a woman is unearthed in the freshly plowed fields that once belonged to a local potter -- now a Benedictine monk. The woman is revealed to be his beautiful young wife, thought to have run away. Medieval Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael must determine if one of his own order is guilty of the crime.

About the author

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters

6 books

A pseudonym used by Edith Pargeter.

Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fictional and non-fictional) were set in Wales and its borderlands.

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