St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981. A first U.S. edition of the fourth volume in the series of mystery novels featuring Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters' iconic Crusades veteran turned monk, herbalist, and amateur sleuth set in 12th century Shrewsbury.
First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 1/2 red cloth, light grey paper over boards, 220pp, red endpapers. Item #900412
ISBN: 0688006671
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 as to who shall benefit from the levies the fair provides, a riot ensues. Afterwards a merchant is found dead, and Brother Cadfael is summoned from his peaceful herb garden to test his detective skills once more.
Sunning extreme top-edge of boards, faint foxing to edges of leaves, very good + in moderately rubbed dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $40.00