Ellis Peters

A collection of stories about life and death-and everything in between-from brilliant mystery author Ellis Peters They find Felipe in his coffin-the ebony sarcophagus that he has always kept beside his bed-dressed in an impeccable tuxedo. Even in death, he's larger than life. The women of London hold a vigil outside his salon, beating their breasts in memory of their dear, departed stylist. But one reporter wonders just how much they really knew about...

From the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the first three mysteries in the Edgar Awardwinning series about an English policeman and his son. In the English village of Comerford, just on the border of Wales, its Det. Sgt. George Felses duty to keep the peaceand keep his fourteen-year-old son, Dominic, out of harms way... Fallen into the Pit : The shadow of World War II still looms over the village of Comerford. Dominic finds the body of...

When a party of monks treks to Wales to dig up the remains of St. Winifred, the main opponent to their excavation efforts is found dead.

After refusing to baptize the illegitimate baby of a local prostitute, the new parish priest is found dead in the river.

Twelfth century Shrewsbury comes dramatically to life in Ellis Peters' story of Brother Cadfael--a good man in an evil world.