Fallen Into the Pit

The Summer of the Danes

The Holy Thief

Brother Cadfael’s Penance

PRAISE FOR EDGAR AWARD-WINNER ELLIS PETERS AND THE PREMIER AMERICAN PUBLICATION OF HER MYSTERY CLASSIC FALLEN INTO THE PIT

“A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT… The Felse family [is] as significant a creation in my view as the medieval Brother Cadfael who has brought Peters her greatest fame.”

—Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

“GOOD NEWS NOT ONLY FOR FANS who may have despaired of ever reading about the Felse family, but also for those poor souls like myself who, through mischance or procrastination, have failed until now to discover this talented and prolific author… While Ms. Peters creates a most admirable puzzle, it is her expressive, literate, descriptive style that has earned well-deserved praise for her.”

—Mostly Murder

“EXCELLENT… Felse gets his first American edition with this atmospheric whodunit set in post-WW II Britain. It has my attention. Keep’em coming!”

—The Reader’s Review, The Book Seller’s Network

“EXCELLENT, WELL-WRITTEN… It’s good to read about a situation where murder is rare and the criminal must be identified so the community can heal… For anybody who hasn’t been reading the Inspector Felse series, it’s certainly a perfect place to start.”

—Associated Press

“VERY GOOD CRIME FICTION… Her books are clever, inventive, credible, and full of good detail.”

—Princeton Times

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“HER STYLE IS BRILLIANT.”

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“THERE IS NO MYSTERY ABOUT ELUS PETERS’S INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM AS A MYSTERY WRITER.”

—Chicago Sun-Times

“PURE PLEASURE… Peters’s stories can be said to have everything.”

—The Armchair Detective

Ellis Peters was the pen name of Edith Pargeter, the prolific and popular author of the Brother Cadfael medieval mystery series and scores of other books and novels. Although best known for her internationally bestselling Cadfael books, she also produced contemporary mysteries such as the Inspector Felse series, current affairs novels, historical novels such as the acclaimed Heaven Tree trilogy, and translations of Czech classics into English. She received numerous honors during her lifetime: the British Crime Writers Association’s Silver Dagger and Cartier Diamond Dagger awards, an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, an OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth, and an honorary MA from Birmingham University, to name but the most illustrious. She was especially proud of her contributions to Czech literature and the gold medal awarded to her from the Czechoslovak Society for Foreign Relations. Edith Pargeter died in 1995 at the age of 82, at home in her beloved Shropshire.

FALLEN INTO THE PIT

This book was first published by William Heinemann ltd., Great Britain.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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