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
Foto taget av: Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), 1913-1995
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Verk av Ellis Peters
The Heaven Tree Trilogy Omnibus: The Heaven Tree, the Green Branch, the Scarlet Seed (1960) 460 exemplar
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: Monk's Hood / The Leper of St. Giles / The Sanctuary Sparrow / One Corpse Too Many (1979) 130 exemplar
The Dominic Felse Omnibus (The Piper on The Mountain, Mourning Raga, Death to the Landlords) (1991) 50 exemplar
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: Dead Man's Ransom | The Pilgrim of Hate | An Excellent Mystery (1999) 32 exemplar
The Detective Omnibus (City of Gold and Shadows / Flight of a Witch / Funeral of Figaro) (1992) 28 exemplar
The George Felse Omnibus: Fallen Into the Pit; Death and the Joyful Woman; A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1994) 27 exemplar
The Brother Cadfael Mysteries: A Morbid Taste for Bones / The Raven in the Foregate / The Rose Rent (1999) 23 exemplar
Brother Cadfael Omnibus: The Rose Rent | The Hermit of Eyton Forest | The Raven in the Foregate (2001) 23 exemplar
The Devil's Novice / The Disappearance of the Saturnalia Silver / Blind Justice / He Came with the Rain (2000) 6 exemplar
By This Strange Fire 4 exemplar
Brother Cadfael: Monk's Hook, the Leper of St. Giles, the Sanctuary Sparrow, One Corpse Too Many [enhanced audiotrack] (1999) 4 exemplar
Let Nothing You Dismay! 2 exemplar
Don Juan 1 exemplar
The Summer of the Danes / The Holy Thief 1 exemplar
The Golden Girl [short story] 1 exemplar
One Corpse Too Many [abridged] 1 exemplar
The Duchess and the Doll 1 exemplar
The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series books: (2-7) (9-12) (14-17) (19) (21/ final book) 1 exemplar
Monk's Hood [abridged] 1 exemplar
Dekle v zrcalu 1 exemplar
Forbudt for børn : 13 noveller 1 exemplar
The Potter's Field / A Rare Benedictine 1 exemplar
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Murder On Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 83 exemplar
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling and Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1865) — Bidragsgivare — 46 exemplar
Murder at Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 44 exemplar
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
Catch a Falling Spy | Never Pick up Hitch-Hikers | More Tales of the Black Widowers (1976) 4 exemplar
Historical Whodunits — Förord — 3 exemplar
The Confession of Brother Haluin | Murder on Tour: A Rock'n'Roll Mystery | A Wicked Slice (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
The Hermit of Eyton Forest | Poetic Justice | So Soon Done For — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 3-4 — Original books — 1 exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Mystery! Cadfael: The Complete Series 1-2 — Original books — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- 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.
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