> From: Don Mowbray [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Although I've never actually seen it, here in the UK there was a
> television
> series based on Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, starring Sir Derek Jacobi
> as the eponymous monastic sleuth. So it would appear that monks also
> solved murders in their spare time away from the divine office(!)
>
Ellis Peters was more conscientious than that. Cadfael was an
ex-Crusader who became the monastery's herbalist and healer for the town.
Most of his "cases" seemed to involve defending the wrongly accused and
often the monastery--as the local hotel, healing, and sanctuary outlet--was
involved in some way and so had an interest in the matter.
Francine
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