Ellis Peters — Dead Man's Ransom

Futura 1985 Paperback 190 In the february of the year of Our Lord 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured Sheriff, Gilbert Prestcote, is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is, and he is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice, and his heart. By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged with Sheriff Prestcote. What no one expects, is that the good-natured Elis and the sheriff's daughter will fall in love. For her, regaining her fathr means losing her lover. But then the sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary - and murdered there. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who pleads on his Welsh honour for Brother Cadfael's help. Tanned; reminder lines on bottom text block edge; cover a little worn. Fair