An edition of The potter’s field (1989)

The Potter's Field

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The Potter's Field
Edith Pargeter, Edith Pargeter
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An edition of The potter’s field (1989)

The Potter's Field

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In October of 1142, a local landlord makes a present of the Potter's Field to the local clergy. This substantial meadow, previously owned by a potter called Ruald and his lovely young wife, is transferred to the Benedictine Abby of St. Peter and St. Paul in August of 1143. Shortly afterward the Benedictine monks begin to plow it.

The plow turns up the long raven tresses of a young woman, dead a year or more; even Brother Cadfael, herbalist and student of medicine, cannot say how long.

The body brings with it complex and delicate problems, for Ruald had abandoned his beautiful wife Generys to take monastic vows, and she was believed to have gone away secretly with a new lover. It seems likely that the dead woman is Generys, and that someone has murdered her. With the arrival at the Abbey of young Sulien Blount, a novice fleeing homeward from an abby ravaged by the civil war raging in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to muliply.

In the Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael the medieval scholarship is everywhere present, but it is the plot that dominates--an intricate mystery with a most sensational and unexpected outcome.

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Elan Press

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The Potter's Field
1995, Elan Press
Paperback
Cover of: The Potter's Field
The Potter's Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
September 1, 1991, Mysterious Press
in English
Cover of: The potter's field
The potter's field: the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael
1991, Ulverscroft
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: The potter's field
The potter's field: the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael
1990, Stoddart
in English
Cover of: The potter's field
Cover of: The Potter's Field
The Potter's Field
1990, Headline
Paperback
Cover of: The potter's field
The potter's field: the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael.
1989, Headline
in English

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OL8552116M
ISBN 10
1551440989
OCLC/WorldCat
35884858
Library Thing
42260
Goodreads
2046229

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