"The ABC Murders": A chilling letter sets the sleuth on the trail of an enigmatic killer. "After the Funeral": A wealthy businessman is dead, and his sister thinks it was murder. "Death on the Nile": Poirot is in Egypt when a chilling murder takes place. "Peril at End House": Whilst on holiday, the sleuth encounters a...
Shrewsbury, 1139. The bloody civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud has swept through the country towards the rural security of Brother Cadfael’s monastery. The citizens of Worcester have fled, among them two orphaned children of noble stock, together with their tutor, a young nun. A Benedictine monk in whose care Lady Ermina...