Edith Mary Pargeter, BEM (September 28, 1913 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England –October 14, 1995) was a prolific author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. Born in the village of Horsehay (Shropshire, England), she had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books (both fictional and non-fictional) were set in Wales and its borderlands. The British Empire Medal (Medal of the Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service) is a British medal awarded for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the crown. ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Map sources for Horsehay at grid reference SJ675075 Horsehay is a small village located in the ceremonial county of Shropshire in England. ... Shropshire (pronounced /, -/), alternatively known as Salop[6] or abbreviated Shrops[7], is a county in the West Midlands of England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... History studies time in human terms. ... Look up historical fiction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Translations (Aistrichiuain) is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel written in 1980. ... This article is about the country. ...

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Pargeter wrote under a number of pseudonyms; it was under the name Ellis Peters that she wrote the highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, many of which were made into films for television. A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Brother Cadfael is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the name Ellis Peters. ...

Bibliography

As Edith Pargeter

The Heaven Tree Trilogy

• The Heaven Tree (1960)
• The Green Branch (1962) (1230 William De Braose, a Norman Marcher Lord was hanged at the Welsh royal home Garth Celyn Aber Garth Celyn, Gwynedd, for an affair with Joan, lady of Wales, the wife of Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.)

• The Scarlet Seed (1963)

Garth Celyn, Aber Garth Celyn, now Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, the home in the thirteenth century of Llywelyn Fawr, Dafydd ap Llywelyn and LLywelyn ap Gruffudd, Tywysog Cymru Aber Garth Celyn, now known as Abergwyngregyn or Aber, is a settlement of great antiquity and on the north coast of Gwynedd. ...

The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet

Four novels about Llewelyn the Last: Arms used by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Llywelyn ap Gruffudd or Gruffydd (c. ...

• Sunrise in the West (1974)
• The Dragon at Noonday (1975)
• The Hounds of Sunset (1976)
• Afterglow and Nightfall (1977)

Other

• Hortensius, Friend of Nero (1936)
• Iron-Bound (1936)
• The City Lies Four-Square (1939)
• Ordinary People (1941) (aka People of My Own)
• She Goes to War (1942)
• The Eighth Champion of Christendom (1945)
• The Fair Young Phoenix (1948)
• By Firelight (1948) (US title: By This Strange Fire)
• The Coast of Bohemia (1950) (non-fiction: an account of a journey in Czechoslovakia)
• Lost Children (1951)
• Holiday With Violence (1952)
• Most Loving Mere Folly (1953)
• The Rough Magic (1953)
• The Soldier at the Door (1954)
• A Means of Grace (1956)
• The Assize of the Dying (1958) (short stories)
• A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury (1972) (US title: The Bloody Field)
• The Marriage of Meggotta (1979) (about Margaret de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, 2nd earl of Kent, who saved Prince Arthur the first time King John tried to have him killed)

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As "Ellis Peters"

George Felse and Family

• Fallen into the Pit (1951)
• Death and the Joyful Woman (1961) (Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1963)
• Flight of a Witch (1964)
• A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1965) (US title: Who Lies Here?)
• The Piper on the Mountain (1966)
• Black is the Colour of my True Love's Heart (1967)
• The Grass-Widow's Tale (1968)
• The House of Green Turf (1969)
• Mourning Raga (1969)
• The Knocker on Death's Door (1970)
• Death to the Landlords! (1972)
• City of Gold and Shadows (1973)
• Rainbow's End (1978)

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ...

Brother Cadfael

See Brother Cadfael for the full list of books and stories, plus radio and TV adaptations. Brother Cadfael is the fictional detective in a series of murder mysteries by the late Edith Pargeter writing under the name Ellis Peters. ...

Other

• Death Mask (1959)
• The Will and the Deed (1960) (US title: Where There's a Will)
• Funeral of Figaro (1962)
• The Horn of Roland (1974)
• Never Pick Up Hitchhikers! (1976)

As "John Redfern"

• The Victim Needs a Nurse (c.1940)

As "Jolyon Carr"

• Murder in the Dispensary (1938)
• Freedom for Two (1939)
• Masters of the Parachute Mail (1940)
• Death Comes by Post (1940)

As "Peter Benedict"

• Day Star (1937)

References

• Songer, Marcia J. "The Ultimate Penance of Brother Cadfael." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 63-68

External resources

• Ellis Peters Books

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