The holy thief

by Peters, Ellis

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Title Statements

Full title :The holy thief / Ellis Peters.

Summary

At the height of the hot summer of 1144, a lucky hit by one of King Stephen's archers rids the Fen country of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who has amassed his castles and gold by robbing rich and poor alike. Thus, the Benedictine abbey at Ramsey, long used as a den for Geoffrey's raggle-taggle marauders, is returned in a thoroughly ruined state to the good brothers of that order. The news comes to Brother Cadfael or the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury in the person of the dour, raw-boned Brother Herluin who is soliciting funds and aid to restore Ramsey Abbey to its former splendor. Of much more interest to Cadfael is Herluin's companion, Brother Tutilo, a slightly built lad with a guileless face surrounded by a profusion of brown curls. But Brother Cadfael, long a shrewd judge of character, notes on that brow an intelligence that bespeaks more of mischief than innocence, and he muses that this Brother Tutilo bears watching. The arrival of a French troubadour, his servant, and a girl with the voice of an angel gives Cadfael a feeling in his wise bones that something is about to happen. It does. The late autumn rains bring flood waters right to the altar where the abbey's most precious possession reposes - the bones of Saint Winifred. Only Brother Cadfael knows that moving the holy relic can expose a long hidden secret. He never envisions that the results of disinterment will be the theft of the cherished bones ... and murder. Suspicion quickly falls on a guilty-looking Brother Tutilo. But did he do it?

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994, ©1992.
Edition:Mysterious Press ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mysterious Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994, ©1992.

Notes

"A Time Warner Company."

"The Nineteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury."--Cover

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 237 pages : : map ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0446403636, 9780446403634
oclc:ocm29884187
LC Classification:PR6031.A49
Dewey Decimal:823/.912

Subjects

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