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Ellis Peters (1913–1995)

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Ellis Peters is the pseudonym for Edith Pargeter, who was born in Horsehay, Shropshire. She was a chemist's assistant from 1933 to 1940 and participated during World War II in the Women's Royal Navy Service. The name "Ellis Peters" was adopted by Edith Pargeter to clearly mark a division between visa mer her mystery stories and her other work. Her brother was Ellis and Petra was a friend from Czechoslovakia, thus the name. She came to writing mysteries, she says, "after half a lifetime of novel-writing." Her detective fiction features well-rounded, knowledgeable characters with whom the reader can empathize. Her most famous literary creation is the medieval monk Brother Cadfael. The blend of history and the formula of the detective story gives Peters's works their popular appeal. As detective hero, Brother Cadfael remains faithful to the requirements of the formula, yet the historical milieu in which he operates is both fully realized and well textured. Peters received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award in 1963 and the Crime Writers Association's Silver Dagger Award in 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Ellis Peters

Ett helgon till varje pris (1977) 3,919 exemplar
Ett lik för mycket (1979) 2,744 exemplar
Baneman i örtagård (1980) 2,323 exemplar
Sankt Pers marknad (1981) 2,049 exemplar
The Leper of Saint Giles (1981) 1,953 exemplar
Galgenfrist för en gycklare (1983) 1,912 exemplar
Rosenmysteriet (1986) 1,788 exemplar
Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994) 1,767 exemplar
A Rare Benedictine (1988) 1,765 exemplar
Djävulens novis (1983) 1,741 exemplar
The Potter's Field (1989) 1,727 exemplar
The Holy Thief (1992) 1,726 exemplar
The Summer of the Danes (1991) 1,725 exemplar
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1987) 1,703 exemplar
Ett utsökt mysterium (1985) 1,697 exemplar
Korpen i klosterbyn (1986) 1,692 exemplar
Hatets pilgrim (1984) 1,637 exemplar
The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988) 1,631 exemplar
The Heretic's Apprentice (1989) 1,627 exemplar
The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet (1977) 549 exemplar
Fallen into the Pit (1951) 511 exemplar
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1965) 509 exemplar
The Knocker on Death's Door (1970) 494 exemplar
Flight of a Witch (1964) 480 exemplar
Death and the Joyful Woman (1961) 421 exemplar
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury (1972) 397 exemplar
The Piper on the Mountain (1966) 383 exemplar
Rainbow's End (1978) 356 exemplar
City of Gold and Shadows (1973) 314 exemplar
The Heaven Tree (1960) 305 exemplar
Mourning Raga (1969) 291 exemplar
The House of Green Turf (1969) 279 exemplar
The First Cadfael Omnibus (1990) 261 exemplar
The Grass Widow's Tale (1968) 258 exemplar
The Second Cadfael Omnibus (2000) 243 exemplar
Death to the Landlords! (1972) 242 exemplar
The Green Branch (1962) 225 exemplar
The Scarlet Seed (1963) 216 exemplar
Death Mask (1959) 185 exemplar
Sunrise in the West (1974) 170 exemplar
The Third Cadfael Omnibus (1992) 169 exemplar
The Will and the Deed (1960) 168 exemplar
The Fourth Cadfael Omnibus (1993) 157 exemplar
Never Pick Up Hitch-hikers! (1976) 135 exemplar
Funeral of Figaro (1962) 132 exemplar
The Marriage of Meggotta (1979) 127 exemplar
The Dragon at Noonday (1975) 126 exemplar
Holiday with Violence (1952) 124 exemplar
The Assize of the Dying (1958) 123 exemplar
The Fifth Cadfael Omnibus (1987) 121 exemplar
The Hounds of Sunset (1976) 112 exemplar
The Sixth Cadfael Omnibus (1996) 109 exemplar
The Horn of Roland (1974) 107 exemplar
Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) 101 exemplar
The Seventh Cadfael Omnibus (1997) 93 exemplar
Brother Cadfael's Book of Days (2000) 54 exemplar
She Goes to War (1989) 54 exemplar
Ellis Peters' Shropshire (1994) 53 exemplar
Most Loving Mere Folly (1953) 38 exemplar
Lost Children (1951) 35 exemplar
Reluctant Odyssey (1990) 34 exemplar
By Firelight (1948) 32 exemplar
Warfare Accomplished (1990) 31 exemplar
The Coast of Bohemia (1950) 25 exemplar
A Means of Grace (1995) 19 exemplar
Monk's Hood / St. Peter's Fair (1994) 16 exemplar
The Price of Light (1993) 10 exemplar
Murder in the Dispensary (1999) 10 exemplar
Eye Witness [short story] (1993) 9 exemplar
The Soldier at the Door (1954) 9 exemplar
The City Lies Four-Square (1939) 8 exemplar
Aunt Helen (1994) 5 exemplar
Vier historische speurders (1999) 5 exemplar
Feline Felonies (1995) 4 exemplar
Leading Ladies of Mystery (1999) 4 exemplar
Fair Young Phoenix (1972) 3 exemplar
Iron-Bound (1936) 1 exemplar
Don Juan 1 exemplar
People of My Own (1942) 1 exemplar
Brother Cadfael Collection (1977) 1 exemplar
Dekle v zrcalu 1 exemplar
Guide to Doom (1963) 1 exemplar
Death Comes By Post (1940) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Låt tågen gå! (1965) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor1,040 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits Volume 1 (1993) — Foreword & Contributor — 565 exemplar
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 289 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 223 exemplar
The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael (1991) — Inledning — 171 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits (2001) — Inledning — 149 exemplar
The Folio Book of Christmas Crime Stories (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 117 exemplar
Stories Not for the Nervous, Part 2 (1900) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 87 exemplar
Legends of Old Bohemia (1963) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor86 exemplar
Crime for Christmas (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 86 exemplar
More Mystery Cats: Feline Felonies (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 76 exemplar
Cadfael Country: Shropshire and the Welsh Borders (1990) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor70 exemplar
2nd Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Cadfael: The Complete Series [videorecording] (2005) — Original books — 63 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Scream Along with Me (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Murder at Christmas (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
Murder in Midsummer (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 36 exemplar
Mysterious Pleasures (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Murder in Midwinter (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries (2023) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many [1994 TV episode] (1994) — Original book — 17 exemplar
Cadfael: A Morbid Taste for Bones [1996 TV episode] (1997) — Original book — 15 exemplar
A Feast of Stories (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
Winter's Crimes 11 (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Cadfael: The Virgin in the Ice [1995 TV episode] (1995) — Original book — 13 exemplar
Cadfael: The Leper of St. Giles [1994 TV episode] (1995) — Original book — 12 exemplar
Cadfael: Monk's Hood [1994 TV episode] (1994) — Original book — 10 exemplar
Cadfael: The Holy Thief [1998 TV episode] (1998) — Original book — 9 exemplar
Cadfael: The Devil's Novice [1996 TV episode] (1995) — Original book — 9 exemplar
Cadfael: The Raven in the Foregate [1997 TV episode] (1997) — Original book — 8 exemplar
Dangerous Ladies (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Vijf historische zaken (1997) 7 exemplar
Cadfael: The Sanctuary Sparrow [1994 TV episode] (1995) — Original book — 7 exemplar
Cadfael: St. Peter's Fair [1997 TV episode] (1997) — Original book — 7 exemplar
Cadfael: The Potter's Field [1998 TV episode] (1998) — Original book — 7 exemplar
Cadfael: The Pilgrim of Hate [1998 TV episode] (1998) — Original book — 7 exemplar
Winter's Crimes 8 (1976) 6 exemplar
Winter's Crimes 16 (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Winter's Crimes 13 (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Winter's Crimes 17 (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Historical Whodunits — Förord — 3 exemplar
Du sang sous le sapin (2001) 2 exemplar
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 3-4 — Original books — 1 exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Argosy - November 1958 (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 1-2 — Original books — 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Pargeter, Edith Mary
Andra namn
Peters, Ellis
Redfern, John
Carr, Jolyon
Benedict, Peter
Födelsedag
1913-09-28
Avled
1995-10-14
Begravningsplats
cremated, ashes scattered
Kön
female
Nationalitet
UK
Land (för karta)
England, UK
Födelseort
Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
Dödsort
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Bostadsorter
Horsehay, Shropshire, England, UK
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
Utbildning
Dawley Church of England School
Coalbrookdale High School for Girls
Yrken
author
chemist's assistant
Women's Royal Naval Service (WWII)
historical novelist
translator
Priser och utmärkelser
Cartier Diamond Dagger 1993 [1993]
Edgar Allan Poe Award 1963
Kort biografi
Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England –October 14, 1995) 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, and/or have Welsh protagonists.

During World War II, she worked in an administrative role in the Women's Royal Naval Service, and received the British Empire Medal - BEM.

Pargeter wrote under a number of pseudonyms; it was under the name Ellis Peters that she wrote the highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, many of which were made into films for television.

Medlemmar

Recensioner

I read many of these many years ago and am reading them again. In a time of political turmoil a well-off merchant is murdered at the Fair. There's a lot of plot!
 
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franoscar | 47 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
I read a lot of the Cadfael books many years ago and am enjoying them again. In this story a landholder offers his estate to the Church in return for being able to live out his life with his wife in their care. But the gift isn't finalized and murder gets in the way. When the wife was a young girl she & Cadfael were secretly engaged; she thinks the fact that she married another (her late first husband, who she was happy with) is what pushed him into monkhood & he doesn't worry about correcting her. There are many fun characters, and a new Abbott at the end.… (mer)
 
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franoscar | 50 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
Pleasantly slow-moving evocation of life in the middle ages. Atmospheric, but not quite atmospheric enough. A simple quickly-solved mystery, not enough every day detail or character building to satisfy. Dialog is sometimes a little off, sounding stilted or contrived.
 
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rscottm182gmailcom | 24 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |
Good, if simple, mystery. Enjoy the ethical explorations of the cardinal books, you understand why the bad things are done, no simple good /evil scenarios. As always, bit of mystery w bit of romance
 
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cspiwak | 27 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
157
Även av
65
Medlemmar
52,160
Popularitet
#291
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
959
ISBN
1,730
Språk
23
Favoritmärkt
167

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