One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
by Ellis Peters
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0333270037
- ISBN 13
- 9780333270035
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Blue boards with gold writing on spine; pages slightly yellowed with age. Quotes from Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, and Oxford Mail on back dust jacket; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition even though slightly yellowed. Cover price of £13.99 on front dust jacket fold; slight shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine.
Pan Macmillan Crime Case First Edition; Third Printing as "Reprinted 1986" and "Reissued 1991" listed on copyright page.
Ellis' Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael in a "whodunit of splendid complexity." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
One Corpse Too Many is a medieval mystery novel set in the summer of 1138 by Ellis Peters, first published in 1979. It was adapted for television in 1994 by Central for ITV. Although it was the first novel in the Brother Cadfael series to be written, it was the second to be published, as the events of A Morbid Taste for Bones take place first, chronologically.
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- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PTR005
- Title
- One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
- Author
- Ellis Peters
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0333270037
- ISBN 13
- 9780333270035
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- December 5, 1991
- Pages
- 192
- Keywords
- ellis peters; one corpse too many; brother cadfael
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Mystery;
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