The Raven in the Foregate Lib/E: The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

Product Description [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Vanessa Benjamin] A Mediaeval 'Whodunnit' It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt. Review ''Enchanting . . . Medieval England comes marvelously alive.'' --Washington Post''A spirited and engrossing mystery . . . Lush, evocative descriptions bring medieval England brilliantly to life.'' --Publishers Weekly ''Absorbing . . . A source of far more pleasure than The Name of the Rose . . . Brother Cadfael's Aristotelian eye is, as usual, tempered by an instinctive knowledge of the human soul.'' --Detroit News ''Miss Peters is a beguiling writer.'' --Daily Telegraph''A spirited and engrossing mystery . . . Lush, evocative descriptions bring medieval England brilliantly to life.'' --Publishers Weekly ''Absorbing . . . A source of far more pleasure than The Name of the Rose . . . Brother Cadfael's Aristotelian eye is, as usual, tempered by an instinctive knowledge of the human soul.'' --Detroit News ''Miss Peters is a beguiling writer.'' --Daily Telegrapn About the Author ELLIS PETERS (1913-1995) was the pen name of English novelist Edith Pargeter, author of scores of books under her own name. She was a recipient of the Silver Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, conferred by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain, as well as the coveted Edgar, awarded by the Mystery Writers of America.