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Informationen zum Autor Ellis Peters is a pseudonym of Edith Pargeter! author of historical novels such as The Heaven Tree Trilogy. Under the name of \nEllis Peters she wrote crime fiction including The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael and a more "modern" detective! Detective \nChief Inspector George False. Ellis Peters won many distinguished writing awards including an Edgar Award! the Silver Dagger \nAward and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award of the Crime Writers Association. She lived in Shropshire! England. Derek Jacobi reads this compelling whodunnit from the bestselling Brother Cadfael chronicles, now on CD for the first time. Zusammenfassung When Judith Perle's husband dies, the young widow bestows one of her properties a house in the Monk's Foregate on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. The only rent is a single white rose, to be delivered annually upon the day of the translation of St Winifred. But as a beautiful woman with a substantial dowry, Judith represents a target for would-be suitors, and her dowry will be even greater if the house were to revert to her. Someone, it seems, will stop at nothing to prevent payment of the rose, and in the summer of 1142 the rose bush is violently hacked down. Lying beside it, the body of a murdered man is discovered. The enquiry into this sensational crime of passion falls, as ever to Brother Cadfael.
