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
Serier
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
Associerade verk
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
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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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This is the second of this series I read, roughly back to back with the first one. I did not find this to be as strong a story, nor so interesting as the first. For such a slim novel, I felt that the politics of the abbey plot line was belaboured and overwrought, while the mystery part felt thin and stretched. I think to some extent there was too much of a sameness between the overly ambitious Prior and the not looking for alternatives Sergeant--which meant that the sections of plot that should have moved past each other instead clumped weirdly.
It was interesting the relevant aspects of English v Welsh law that parts of the story hinge on. I'm not entirely fussed about the truth / historicity of these details, because they worked together to make a whole.
It is possible that if I had been able to find book 2 of the series that this would have worked better -- the first book is not set at the Abbey, and thus there are a number of new-to-me characters that might have felt better developed if I had encountered them previously.
In general, this was a pleasant way to spend some time, but I found myself frustrated by aspects of the writing.… (mer)
It was interesting the relevant aspects of English v Welsh law that parts of the story hinge on. I'm not entirely fussed about the truth / historicity of these details, because they worked together to make a whole.
It is possible that if I had been able to find book 2 of the series that this would have worked better -- the first book is not set at the Abbey, and thus there are a number of new-to-me characters that might have felt better developed if I had encountered them previously.
In general, this was a pleasant way to spend some time, but I found myself frustrated by aspects of the writing.… (mer)
The Rose Rent is 13th of the Brother Cadfael Mysteries series by Ellis Peters. It works just as well reading it as a stand alone book. I have not read any of the other books in this series, and I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It was a good old cozy murder mystery to be enjoyed while relaxing by the fireside and sipping a cup of tea. The setting was ideal--a Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury in 1142 with all the appropriate and well fleshed out inhabitants of both abbey and Shire in general, from the bronzesmith, Niall to the Sheriff and other inhabitants of the town. The star of this book and series is the shrewd Brother Cadfael, who characteristically of the quiet listener, makes the perfect sleuth.
The scenario revolves around a wealthy young widow, Judith Perle. She runs the family's prosperous clothing business which gives her an independent status highly unusual to women in this time period, outside of cloisters. She has donated a house to the abbey, free of charge with the exception of an annual rent to be paid once a year--delivery to her of a white rose from her favorite rosebush given her by her deceased husband.
Judith has a number of suitors and in addition one of the young Brothers at the monastery has been infaturated by her. After confessing such to his confessor, he if relieved of his duty of delivering the annual rose. However, not long after this confession his body is found near the rosebush, which has been seriously vandalized. It is at first thought to be a suicide, but after comtemplating the scene and looking over the evidence as such, Brother Cadfael and the others determine it was murder, as they piece together signs of foul play.
It is the first in a series of sinister events that transpire revolving around Judith and the rosebush upon which the annual rent, and therefore the contract that gifted the home to the abbey, depends. Next, Judith herself disappears during an early morning walk. It is soon determined that she was kidnapped, likely to prevent the payment of the rose rent, thereby negating the contract and freeing up the property. It is also assumed that it is likely one of her number of suitors who by besmirching her reputation could force her hand in marriage and lay his hands on her business and riches, a perfect motive. Brother Cadfael, along with her other loyal friends, begin their investigation and ongoing search for Judith.
More plot twists ensue, with another body mysteriously washing up with a couple of wounds to the head visible. Judith herself barely escapes the hands of the murderer, being rescued by a newly acquired suitor, one who she is beginning to have fond feelings for, and one who hasn't even admitted to himself yet that he indeed is a suitor.
The only remaining casualty is the rose bush itself, which is blown to bits by the murderer still at large in order to prevent the rose rent from being paid. Everyone is on edge, with the fiend still on the loose. But Brother Cadfael has finally uncovered the last evidence he needed pointing to the culprit who is then confronted and arrested.
We end the story on a happy setting with things finally beginning to look up for the young widow as it seems there is a budding romance growing between her and her rescuer. As I said, it's an enjoyable who-done-it!… (mer)
The scenario revolves around a wealthy young widow, Judith Perle. She runs the family's prosperous clothing business which gives her an independent status highly unusual to women in this time period, outside of cloisters. She has donated a house to the abbey, free of charge with the exception of an annual rent to be paid once a year--delivery to her of a white rose from her favorite rosebush given her by her deceased husband.
Judith has a number of suitors and in addition one of the young Brothers at the monastery has been infaturated by her. After confessing such to his confessor, he if relieved of his duty of delivering the annual rose. However, not long after this confession his body is found near the rosebush, which has been seriously vandalized. It is at first thought to be a suicide, but after comtemplating the scene and looking over the evidence as such, Brother Cadfael and the others determine it was murder, as they piece together signs of foul play.
It is the first in a series of sinister events that transpire revolving around Judith and the rosebush upon which the annual rent, and therefore the contract that gifted the home to the abbey, depends. Next, Judith herself disappears during an early morning walk. It is soon determined that she was kidnapped, likely to prevent the payment of the rose rent, thereby negating the contract and freeing up the property. It is also assumed that it is likely one of her number of suitors who by besmirching her reputation could force her hand in marriage and lay his hands on her business and riches, a perfect motive. Brother Cadfael, along with her other loyal friends, begin their investigation and ongoing search for Judith.
More plot twists ensue, with another body mysteriously washing up with a couple of wounds to the head visible. Judith herself barely escapes the hands of the murderer, being rescued by a newly acquired suitor, one who she is beginning to have fond feelings for, and one who hasn't even admitted to himself yet that he indeed is a suitor.
The only remaining casualty is the rose bush itself, which is blown to bits by the murderer still at large in order to prevent the rose rent from being paid. Everyone is on edge, with the fiend still on the loose. But Brother Cadfael has finally uncovered the last evidence he needed pointing to the culprit who is then confronted and arrested.
We end the story on a happy setting with things finally beginning to look up for the young widow as it seems there is a budding romance growing between her and her rescuer. As I said, it's an enjoyable who-done-it!… (mer)
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- Verk
- 154
- Även av
- 65
- Medlemmar
- 51,346
- Popularitet
- #296
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 925
- ISBN
- 1,729
- Språk
- 23
- Favoritmärkt
- 168
And the title is a lovely pointed comment, but whether it is specifically the author, or Brother Cadfael, I never did pick.… (mer)