Brother Cadfael is the fictional main character in a series of historical murder mysteries written by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters". The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey, in western England, in the first half of the 12th century.
As a character, Cadfael is an unusual monk, only entering the cloister in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this
experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic
life. He is a skillful observer of human nature, a talented herbalist,
which skill he learned in the Holy Lands and while a prisoner of the
Muslims. He is also inquisitive by nature, energetic, and has an
innate, although modern, sense of justice and fair-play. Abbots call
upon him as a medical examiner, detective, doctor, and diplomat. His
worldly knowledge, although useful, gets him in trouble with the more
doctrinaire characters of the series, and the seeming contradiction
between the secular and the spiritual worlds forms a central and
continuing theme of the stories.
In all, Pargeter wrote twenty Cadfael books between 1977 and 1994. Each draws upon the storyline, characters, and developments of previous
books in the series. Pargeter apparently planned the 20th installment as
the final book of the series; Brother Cadfael's Penance
brings together the loose story ends into a tidy conclusion. Pargeter
herself died shortly after its publication, following a long illness.
Many of the books were adapted into both radio episodes in which Glyn Houston and subsequently Philip Madoc played the monk, and a television series starring Derek Jacobi as Cadfael.
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When Shrewsbury Castle falls during a war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, Brother Caedfael makes another grim discovery--a strangled corpse lying among the dead--and vows to find the murderer. (Amazon)
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images.amazon.com/images/P/0446400513.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpgCadfael - One Corpse Too Many (1 of 3).mp3
Cadfael - One Corpse Too Many (2 of 3).mp3
Cadfael - One Corpse Too Many (3 of 3).mp3
Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man's daughter needs Cadfael's help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all (Amazon)
01 - A Morbid Taste for Bones Part 1 1-4.zip
01 - A Morbid Taste for Bones Part 2 5-8.zip
01 - A Morbid Taste for Bones Part 3 9-12.zip