The Rose Rent

Ellis Peters

ISBN 10: 1844561771 ISBN 13: 9781844561773

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006

Synopsis

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, the body of a murdered man is discovered.



The enquiry into this sensational crime of passion falls, as ever to Brother Cadfael.

About this title

About the Author

Ellis Peters was the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. She wrote twenty chronicles in the Cadfael series, which she produced annually until her death in 1995.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844561771
• ISBN 13: 9781844561773
• Binding: Audio CD