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Peters, Ellis.
A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit.
Publisher: Macmillan London Limited, London and Basingstoke;
Date of Publication: 1977
Stock Code: 14926
First edition. Octavo, pp., 191, [1]. Publisher’s terracotta cloth, titled in black to spine. In the publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cloth fresh and bright, with some foxing to top edge of text-block and a small ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Contents otherwise clean and neat. Near fine dust-jacket with a small price sticker to inner flap, and a tiny spot of soiling to lower flap. The first installment in the Cadfael Chronicles. Ellis Peters is the pseudoynm of Edith Mary Pageter (1913-1995). Peters/Pageter was prolific in both guises, but it was the Cadfael Chronicles that secured her place in the canon of historical mystery. £125.00