The Rose Rent Author:Ellis Peters When Judith Perle's Husband dies, the young widow bestows one of her prperties - a house in the Monk's Foregate - on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. The only rent: a single whte rose, to be delivered annually upon the day of translation of St. Winifred. — But a beautiful woman with a substantial dowry must represent a target for would-be suitors. How mu... more »ch greater the dowry if the house should revert to her! Someone, it seems, will stop at nothing to prevent payment of the rose. In the summer of 1142 the rose is violently hacked down and lying beside it, equally brutally hacked, a murderd man is discovered.
To Brother Cadfael, as ever, falls the enquiry into this sensational crime of passion.« less