The Rose Rent: A Cadfael Fansite

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29/04/1994      One Corpse Too Many

Brother Cadfael has settled down to a quiet religious life at Shrewsbury Abbey after an adventurous, and far from monastic, youth. But when he uncovers a murder, he turns detective to solve the crime.

 

05/06/1994      The Sanctuary Sparrow

When Shrewsbury's goldsmith is robbed and left for dead, the locals launch a witch-hunt. Pursued by the mob, the prime suspect, a young juggler who performed at the wedding of the goldsmith's son, seeks sanctuary at the Abbey. But as Cadfael investigates, a second body is found floating in the River Severn.

 

12/06/1994      The Leper of St Giles

A great wedding is to take place at the Abbey, between a beautiful young girl and a powerful baron. But this is no love match, and when the baron disappears before the wedding, Cadfael is on the case.

 

19/06/1994      Monk's Hood

A rich landowner cuts his stepson out of his will to leave his fortune to Shrewsbury Abbey, and is found poisoned. When Cadfael is called in to investigate, he is shocked to find that the dead man's wife is his own childhood sweetheart, whom he has not seen for forty years.

 

26/12/1995      The Virgin in the Ice

Cadfael's novice, Brother Oswin, is found close to death, babbling about a woman. When a nun is found raped, murdered and encased in the ice of a frozen stream, Oswin is accused of murder. Cadfael tracks the nun's companion, Ermina Hugonin, and sets out to prove Oswin's innocence.

 

18/08/1996      The Devil's Novice

A rich priest is found killed, and the finger of suspicion points to a new monk at Shrewsbury Abbey. Meanwhile, a civil war raging around England is piling political pressures on the Abbot. Cadfael investigates the murder and uncovers a tangled web of dishonesty and nepotism.

 

25/08/1996      A Morbid Taste for Bones

The monks of Shrewsbury go to Wales to recover the bones of St Winifred. But their attempted bribery of the Welsh puts them at odds with the local residents - and when the local landowner is found murdered, the monks are regarded as prime suspects.

 

12/08/1997      The Rose Rent

The recently-widowed wife, Judith Perle, of a rich merchant becomes the object of interest for the men of Shrewsbury. But then a monk and one of her suitors are murdered.

 

19/08/1997      St. Peter's Fair

Cadfael puts Hugh Beringar to the test, and Hugh has to choose between loyalty to the king and friendship with Cadfael.  Meanwhile, at the annual St Peter's Fair in Shrewsbury, townspeople come into conflict with the Abbey's officers and with visiting merchants. A curfew is ordered, but not fully observed - then Cadfael finds he has a murder to solve.

 

26/08/1997      The Raven in the Foregate

Cadfael is on a double murder hunt following the deaths of a pregnant girl and the priest who refused to take her confession.

 

23/06/1998      The Holy Thief

Dalny, a beautiful slave girl, is abducted from the Abbey - and the relics of St Winifred are also spirited away, apparently by the same thief. Cadfael is commissioned to find them both.

 

23/12/1998      The Potter's Field

A potter's wife dies suddenly, and he gives up his old life to enter the Abbey, but the other monks suspect him of having killed his wife. As Cadfael investigates the death he finds a curious web of jealousy, infidelity and suicide.

 

28/12/1998      The Pilgrim of Hate

The dead body of an elderly man is found hidden in a sack at the Abbey, and Cadfael believes he was murdered. The principal suspects are a group of pilgrims, who include two known thieves. Cadfael locks them up, in a bid to draw out the killer.

 

Hugh Beringar: I would know more of you, Cadfael. In this new town of mine I shall need a good friend. And I can think of none better than a rare Benedictine.

 

Brother Cadfael: But the most interesting thing--

Prior Robert: Interesting? We don't all share your morbid propensities, Brother.

Brother Cadfael: Revealing, then.

 

Brother Cadfael: There is no shame in tears if they are worth the shedding.

 

Hugh Beringar: You might equally suggest that the earth moves around the sun with as little proof!

 

Cadfael: Oswin, it surely is not in your vows to listen to gossip.

Brother Oswin: No, brother.

Cadfael: Well, don't let that stop you.

 

...man of the world turned man of the cloth...