Justiça à Moda Antiga (Série Pêndulo #9)

"Justiça à Moda Antiga" (1980 / Série Pêndulo de Bolso Europa-América, 9) -- Ano da Graça de 1138, Dezembro. Shrewsbury (junto à fronteira com o País de Gales) acaba de se libertar do cerco e das vagas da guerra civil entre o Rei Stephen e a Imperatriz Maud. No mosteiro de Shrewsbury, tudo parece calmo e pacífico, o Irmão Cadfael (um beneditino, monge-detective, botânico e herborista), descobre que um benfeitor da Abadia de São Pedro e São Paulo foi envenenado com acónito (monkshood / monk's coule) proveniente das suas próprias reservas. Horrorizado, porque o veneno fôra obra sua, Cadfael vai ter de usar todas as suas capacidades para encontrar o culpado, um assassino à moda antiga...

The Cadfael Chronicles is a series of historical murder mysteries written by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name "Ellis Peters": Pargeter's Cadfael Chronicles are sometimes credited for popularizing what would later become known as the historical mystery. As a character, Brother Cadfael is a conversus, only entering the cloister in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life. He is a skilled observer of human nature and a talented herbalist (which skill he learned in the Holy Lands from the Muslims). He is inquisitive by nature, energetic, and has an innate, although modern, sense of justice and fair-play. Abbots call upon him as a medical examiner, detective, doctor, and diplomat. His worldly knowledge, although useful, gets him in trouble with the more doctrinaire characters of the series, and the seeming contradiction between the secular and the spiritual worlds forms a central and continuing theme of the stories. [From Wikipedia].
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