Edith Pargeter
Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.
Books
- A Morbid Taste for Bones 1981
- One Corpse too Many 1979
- Saint Peter's Fair 1983
- Monk's Hood
- The virgin in the ice 1985
- A Rare Benedictine
- The Leper of Saint Giles 1981
- The devil’s novice 1985
- The summer of the Danes 1991
- The hermit of Eyton Forest
- An excellent mystery 1985
- The Rose Rent 1986

- The heretic’s apprentice
- The pilgrim of hate
- Dead Man's Ransom 1985
- Death and the joyful woman
- The raven in the foregate

- The potter’s field 1989
- The Confession of Brother Haluin
- The Holy Thief
- Brother Cadfael’s penance
- A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
- The house of green turf