Ellis Peters

The Felse Investigations Volume One (eBook, ePUB)

Fallen into the Pit, Death and the Joyful Woman, and Flight of a Witch

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the first three mysteries in the Edgar Award-winning series about an English policeman and his son. In the English village of Comerford, just on the border of Wales, it's Det. Sgt. George Felse's duty to keep the peace-and keep his fourteen-year-old son, Dominic, out of harm's way... Fallen into the Pit: The shadow of World War II still looms over the village of Comerford. Dominic finds the body of a German ex-prisoner of war and develops a dangerous interest in solving the case. "Hypnotically good." - Boston Sunday Globe Death and the Joyful Woman: Dominic falls in love with an heiress who stands accused of bludgeoning a millionaire beer baron to death with a magnum of champagne. "Felse...is a fully-dimensioned character who plumbs the experiences of his personal life to understand his case." - Publishers Weekly Flight of a Witch: Felse handles a strange case involving the disappearance of a local beauty, a fatal robbery, and witchcraft. "A tension-laden, consistently intriguing puzzle." - Kirkus Reviews

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Seitenzahl: 1570
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504051361
• Artikelnr.: 51115009

Autorenporträt

Ellis Peters is a pseudonym of Edith Mary Pargeter (1913-1995), a British author whose Chronicles of Brother Cadfael are credited with popularizing the historical mystery. Cadfael, a WelshBenedictinemonk living atShrewsbury Abbey in the first half of the twelfth century, has been described as combining the curious mind of a scientist with the bravery of a knight-errant. The character has been adapted for television, and the books drew international attention to Shrewsbury and its history. Pargeter won an Edgar Awardin 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman, and in 1993 she won theCartier Diamond Dagger, an annual award given by theCrime Writers' Association of Great Britain. She was appointedofficer of the Order of the British Empirein 1994, and in 1999 the BritishCrime Writers' Associationestablished theEllis Peters Historical Daggeraward, later called the Ellis Peters Historical Award.