Brother Cadfael is a fictional character, the detective in a series of murder mysteries by Edith Pargeter writing under the name "Ellis Peters." Cadfael is a Benedictine monk, the herbalist at an abbey in Shrewsbury, England, near the Welsh border. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during the civil war between the forces of King Stephen and Empress Maud.
The Brother Cadfael stories
Short stories
- A Rare Benedictine (1988)
- A Light on the Road to Woodstock
- The Price of Light
- Eye Witness
Novels
- 1 --- A Morbid Taste for Bones (©1977)
- 2 --- One Corpse Too Many (©1979)
- 3 --- Monk's Hood (©1980)
- 4 --- Saint Peter's Fair (©1981)
- 5 --- The Leper of Saint Giles (©1981)
- 6 --- The Virgin in the Ice (©1982)
- 7 --- The Sanctuary Sparrow (©1983)
- 8 --- The Devil's Novice (©1983)
- 9 --- Dead Man's Ransom (©1984)
- 10 -- The Pilgrim of Hate (©1984)
- 11 -- An Excellent Mystery (©1985)
- 12 -- The Raven in the Foregate (©1986)
- 13 -- The Rose Rent (©1986)
- 14 -- The Hermit of Eyton Forest (©1988)
- 15 -- The Confession of Brother Haluin (©1988)
- 16 -- The Heretic's Apprentice (©1990)
- 17 -- The Potter's Field (©1990)
- 18 -- The Summer of the Danes (©1991)
- 19 -- The Holy Thief (©1992)
- 20 -- Brother Cadfael's Penance (©1994)
Films starring Sir Derek Jacobi
- Series I:
- 7 --- The Sanctuary Sparrow
- 3 --- Monk's Hood
- 5 --- The Leper of Saint Giles
- 2 --- One Corpse Too Many
- Series II:
- 4 --- Saint Peter's Fair
- 6 --- The Virgin in the Ice
- 8 --- The Devil's Novice
- Series III:
- 1 --- A Morbid Taste for Bones
- 13 -- The Rose Rent
- 12 -- The Raven in the Foregate
- Series IV:
- 10 -- The Pilgrim of Hate
- 19 -- The Holy Thief
- 17 -- The Potter's Field