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ONE CORPSE TOO MANY - A Brother Cadfael Mystery.
by Peters, Ellis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688036309
- ISBN 13
- 9780688036300
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: Morrow, 1980. 1st ed. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Cloth shows very minor spotting, page edges very lightly soiled, else about fine in dust jacket lightly foxed at inside flaps. The 2nd Cadfael and an increasingly difficult book to find. In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. 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. 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. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy’s clothing, a missing treasure, and a single broken flower . . . the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderer’s black heart. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
Synopsis
One Corpse Too Many is a medieval mystery novel set in the summer of 1138 by Ellis Peters, first published in 1979. It was adapted for television in 1994 by Central for ITV. Although it was the first novel in the Brother Cadfael series to be written, it was the second to be published, as the events of A Morbid Taste for Bones take place first, chronologically.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004537
- Title
- ONE CORPSE TOO MANY - A Brother Cadfael Mystery.
- Author
- Peters, Ellis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688036309
- ISBN 13
- 9780688036300
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- MYSTERY; HISTORICAL; MYSTERY & CRIME
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