One Corpse Too Many. The 2nd Cadfael Chronicle

By Ellis Peters

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• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B00PZN3FAY
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Book Club Associates [BCA]
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"We deal with what is." – Brother Cadfael.

As complex as any of the Cadfael series, written by Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter), this story tells the story of how Master Hugh Beringar becomes sheriff. Also, as Cadfael states, “By my reckoning, there is one corpse too many.” During the time of the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud, the abbey took a neutral stance. However, Brother Cadfael has been given a new assistant. The young lad is anything but, as he is a she. Naturally, Cadfael, being a man of the world, detects this and must find out why she is hiding. Meanwhile, back to the war, Shrewsbury Castle is under siege by Stephen's men for being a Maud holdout. When Stephen finally gets to the castle, he orders the rebel soldiers executed. Cadfael is preparing them for a Christian burial when he counts 95 instead of 94. It is trivial to the king, but Cadfael presses that it would not bode well for a king to dismiss a murderer under his very nose. Looks like it may have been the work of Hugh Beringar, a man who appeared to have conveniently changed sides in the war. King Stephen is not unaware of this. This time it will be Cadfael’s intuition, forensics, and logic. Prove the case? Is Hue a villain, or will he turn out to be a friend?