Saint Peter's fair
St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to the town of Shrewsbury--until the body of a wealthy merchant is foun...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Open Road Integrated Media LLC,
2017.
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| Series: | Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995. Cadfael chronicles ;
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| Summary: | St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a pause in the civil war racking the country in the summer of 1139, and the fair promises to bring some much-needed gaiety to the town of Shrewsbury--until the body of a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1981. |
| Physical Description: | 305 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781504048446 150404844X |
| Author Notes: | Pargeter won an Edgar Award in 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman , and in 1993 she won the Cartier Diamond Dagger, an annual award given by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. She was appointed officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, and in 1999 the British Crime Writers' Association established the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award, later called the Ellis Peters Historical Award. |
