The Mourning Raga By Ellis Peters

Posted by Riklaa on September 22, 2012 at 2:54pm

The Mourning Raga - A Dominic Felse Mystery
By Ellis Peters
SNT 1970-19-12
With Patricia Gallimore and Sean Barrett

128K

As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjili is no sinecure and the task of delivering her back to her family proves less than easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country remote, mysterious and often shatteringly brutal...



The Author

 Ellis Peters’ real name was Edith Pargeter (1913-1995). The duality of the borderlands was part of her personal heritage: she had a Welsh grandmother, but her parents were both English. Born in a village called Horsehay, she went to school in Ironbridge Gorge, now designated a World Heritage Site in recognition of Abraham Darby’s iron-smelting furnace, founded a couple of centuries before she was born. Early on, she showed a facility for writing. She published a short historical novel with the less than snappy title Hortensius, Friend of Nero in 1936 and her debut crime novel appeared in 1938. Murder in the Dispensary made little impact and remained a little known book until Post Mortem Books recently produced a limited edition reprint. It was the first of four crime novels, initally appearing as newspaper serials, which Peters produced, in the space of a couple of years, under the name of Jolyon Carr. She was fond of male pseudonyms: her second (non-criminous) book appeared as by Peter Benedict and in 1940 she published The Victim Needs a Nurse disguised as John Redfern.

Using her own name, she wrote no fewer than 36 novels, including two notable historical sequences, The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet and The Heaven Tree Trilogy. As Pargeter, she also wrote Fallen into the Pit, which introduced the policeman George Felse and his family; Felse began as a sergeant and eventually became a detective superintendent. One more non-Felse crime novel appeared under her own name before she transformed into Ellis Peters with the publication of Death Mask in 1959. She retained the Peters name for books featuring Felse and, increasingly, his son Dominic.

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  • Robert Flood January 14, 2013 at 6:41pm

    Rick -

    Thanks for a wonderful offering.

    Bob

  • WWB January 14, 2013 at 5:25pm

    Many thanks Rick.  WWB

  • abby September 24, 2012 at 6:48am

    Thank you!

  • Jim Robarts September 23, 2012 at 4:09pm

    This is an amazing find.  Thanks.

  • Anson (Bob) Roberts September 23, 2012 at 12:05am

    I would wxho AK and David's words.

    Thanks for this one!

  • Robert Johnson September 22, 2012 at 9:04pm

    Thanks for this Rick.

    Robert Johnson

  • Riklaa September 22, 2012 at 4:20pm

    You are totally welcome AK.  I hope you thoroughly enjoy it.  --------------  Rick

    • David Holman > Riklaa September 22, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Oh Rick,you've made my day. Mourning Raga was one Ellis Peters I never thought would see the light of day! Many thanks for sharing this rare SNT:)

      David

    • Riklaa > David Holman September 22, 2012 at 5:34pm

      Enjoy it David!  ----  Rick

  • AK September 22, 2012 at 3:10pm

    Dear Rick-

    an Ellis Peters totally unknown to me - I'm really looking forward to listening to this! Thanks, yet again, for this and the many, many other hours of incredible listening you've shared!


    AK

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