Three vintage tales reveal how a former crusader became literature & rsquo;s greatest mystery-solving monk & ldquo;Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured. & rdquo; So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine & mdash;three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery featuring the monastic sleuth who has become the best-loved ecclesiastical detective since Father Brown. Although Cadfael has appeared in twenty novel-length chronicles, the story of his entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers. Now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.
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ISBN:9781497671652
ISBN:1497671655
Physical Description:remote 1 online resource.
Publisher:New York, NY :MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media,2014.
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Maps; Introduction; A Light on the Road to Woodstock; The Price of Light; Eye Witness; Preview: A Morbid Taste for Bones; Glossary of Terms; A Guide to Welsh Pronunciation; Copyright.