Ellis Peters
The Raven in the Foregate
Published December 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032-307-8
Read by Derek Jacobi Christmas, 1141 AD. A priest arrives from London to fill the vacant living of Holy Cross (the Foregate) - a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but one who lacks the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest’s train. Sent to work in Brother Cadfael’s garden, he has attracted the friendship of a beautiful and formidable girl.
To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
Abridged by Peter Mackie
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Ellis Peters
An Excellent Mystery
Published November 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032-312-4
Read by Derek Jacobi The England of 1141 is a land torn by civil strife. Seeking refuge in Shrewsbury are the badly-crippled Brother Humilis and the mute Fidelis, his devoted attendant. All is well until Nicholas, once Humilis’ squire, resolves to pay court to the girl who was once his lord’s affianced bride, and comes to ask his blessing on the suit. Then a latent tragedy becomes a present reality, and only the ever-indefatigable Brother Cadfael can distinguish between the innocent and the guilty. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
The Confessions of Brother Haluin
Published November 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032-372-8
Read by Derek Jacobi Eighteen years before, confesses Brother Haluin, he had been responsible for the death of the girl he loved and the baby she was to bear. Now, after a near-miraculous escape from death, he wants nothing more than to beg the forgiveness of Bertrade’s mother, Adelais de Clary, and do penance for his sins. But Haluin’s mission brings death in its wake, for Bertrade de Clary’s secrets were not hers alone and, even now, the revelation of them would bring shame and condemnation.
Brother Cadfael, sent to nurse Haluin, turns detective once again with a murderer to bring to justice. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
Monk's Hood
Published November 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032-362-0
Read by Derek Jacobi In exchange for keep for life for himself, his wife and two servants, Gervase Bonel assigned his manor of Mallilie to the abbey of St Peter and St Paul at Shrewsbury. But within too short a time, Master Bonel was dying, poisoned by a concoction of Brother Cadfael’s making. Whose hand did the deed, and why? Summoned to the bedside, Cadfael recognises Bonel’s wife immediately: Richeldis, the girl Cadfael himself left to find glory on the battlefields of the Holy Land. Past misdeeds find present and deadly reckonings in this, the third chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peter’s marvellously created mediaeval detective. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
The Rose Rent
Published August 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032-317-5
Read by Derek Jacobi 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 is the body of a murdered man.
The enquiry into this sensational crime of passion fails, as ever to Brother Cadfael. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
The Devil's Novice
Published July 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1-84032 322 1
Read by Derek Jacobi In the autumn of 1140, the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a disturbing presence. Meek and biddable by day, his sleep is torn by nightmares so violent as to earn him the nickname of 'Devil's Novice'. Can Meriet be involved in the nearby disappearance of a superior prelate? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth behind the young man's predicament. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
St Peter's Fair
Published June 2000 by Hodder Headline Audio at £8.99
ISBN: 1840323272
Read by Derek Jacobi The great annual Fair of Saint Peter at Shrewsbury, a high point in the city's calendar, attracts merchants from far and wide to do business. But when an unseemly quarrel breaks out between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery over who shall benefit from the levies provided by the fair, a riot ensues. In the aftermath a merchant is found dead - and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful monastery herb-garden to test his skills as a detective once more. Derek Jacobi, who plays Cadfael on ITV, reads this compelling whodunnit from the Brother Cadfael chronicles. Sir Derek Jacobi is highly respected for his work in theatre, television and film. His theatrical work includes the title roles in Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III and Cyrano de Bergerac, his acclaimed TV and film performances include I, Claudius, The Day of the Jackal, Henry V, Little Dorrit, Dead Again and Hamlet.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
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Ellis Peters
The Raven in the Foregate
