Also by Ellis Peters and published by Futura:
Rainbow’s End
The Knocker On Death’s Door
A Nice Derangement Of Epitaphs
The Brother Cadfael Chronicles
a morbid taste for bones
one corpse too many
monk’s-hood
st peter’s fair
the leper of saint giles
the sanctuary sparrow
the virgin in the ice
devil’s novice
dead man’s ransom
the pilgrim of hate
an excellent mystery
the raven in the foregate
the rose rent
the hermit of eyton forest
the confession of brother haluin
The Heaven Tree Trilogy (writing as Edith Pargeter)
The Heaven Tree
The Green Branch
The Scarlet Seed
A Futura Book
First published in Great Britain in 1967
by William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd
This edition published in 1988 by
Futura Publications, a Division of
Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd.
London & Sydney
Reprinted 1988, 1989
Copyright © Ellis Peters 1967
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