num_pages: 214
description: In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged.
language: English
title: One Corpse Too Many
titlecomplete: One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
characters: Hugh Beringar, Godith Adeney, Aline Siward, Stephen, King of England, Brother Cadfael, Torold Blund, Adam Courcelle
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 15839
places: England, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
publisher: Grand Central Publishing