# Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael Books--anyone?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 12, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellis-peters-brother-cadfael-books-anyone/113657 "2002-06-12T15:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Wrong\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Wrong_Girl)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellis-peters-brother-cadfael-books-anyone/113657/21 "2002-06-13T15:24:55Z")

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Yay! Other people like Brother Cadfael, too!

I’ve seen a couple of the BBC television series, and I agree that they definitely found the right person to portray Cadfael in Derek Jacobi. Did they make a show out of every single book? I’ve always wondered that.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellis-peters-brother-cadfael-books-anyone/113657/22 "2002-06-13T15:43:26Z")

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Thirteen of the twenty books have been adapted for the television, to wit  
One Corpse Too Many  
The Sanctuary Sparrow  
The Leper of St Giles  
Monk’s Hood  
The Virgin in the Ice  
The Devil’s Novice  
A Morbid Taste for Bones  
The Rose Rent  
St Peter’s Fair  
The Raven in the Foregate  
The Holy Thief  
The Potter’s Field  
The Pilgrim of Hate  
(Transmitted in that order. Last three went out in 1998, so who knows? they may finish the series yet.)

(BTW, it’s an ITV rather than a BBC series.)

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**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellis-peters-brother-cadfael-books-anyone/113657/23 "2002-06-13T16:06:12Z")

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I very much enjoyed the Brother Cadfael series, and they are the type of books that I know I can pick back up again for an entertaining re-read.

I was very sorry to hear that Edith Parteger (a/k/a Ellis Peters) had died, because I knew that meant no more Brother Cadfael books.

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**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellis-peters-brother-cadfael-books-anyone/113657/24 "2002-06-13T23:17:45Z")

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Me too, **Jodi** , when I read the back book comments on the last book in the series…dammit, and just when that book had more loose ends!

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