Brother Cadfael: The Murders

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1. Father Abbot brought back a new priest recomended by the bishop of Winchester to replace the previous priest who had died. This new priest soon became hated and resented by most of the town and within a few days he was found dead in the mill pond. Who was this new priest? Father Adam Father Huw Father Eluric Father Ailnoth

2. Gervase Bonel died after eating a dish of food sent by the Prior. Who was responsible for adding the poison to the food? Meurig Edwin Aelfric Edwy

3. A great many merchants came through Shrewsbury selling their wares and not all of them left alive. Euan of Shotwick was one such unlucky merchant. What was Euan selling? Bread Wine Gloves Shoes

4. Brother Cadfael lives in a monastery with several other brothers. However, even living in the sanctuary of the Abbey, these brothers sometimes meet an untimely death. Who was responsible for the death of Brother Eluric? Bertred Miles Coliar No-one - it was suicide Niall Bronzesmith

5. Sometimes even in Shrewsbury Abbey, things don't always go as planned. A prisoner swap between Shrewsbury and Wales had to be abandoned after someone important to the swap died. Who was found dead therefore preventing the swap occuring? Hugh Beringar Gilbert Prestcote Elis ap Cynan Eliud ap Griffith

6. Anybody can kill for a reason that seems good enough to them. It doesn't necessarily make sense to anyone else, but to them it was the only answer they could come up with. In which book did a Benedictine monk murder someone? The Holy Thief A Morbid Taste for Bones The Virgin in the Ice The Devil's Novice

7. Snow can hide many murders. Some kill for sport and some for pleasure but among all this murder, a young nun was found dead. Who killed Sister Hilaria? Brother Elyas Alain le Gaucher Lord Boterel Olivier de Bretagne

8. Once the crime has been committed the murderer, if suspected, must hide to avoid arrest and hanging. Where did the murderer of Baron Huon de Domville hide? In a shepherd's hut At the leper hospital of St Giles In the abbey as a guest In the abbey as a monk

9. When Shrewsbury fell to King Stephen, 94 men, supporters of Empress Maud, were sentenced to hang. After the executions, 95 bodies were laid out in the castle courtyard. Brother Cadfael, after examining the bodies, was able to identify which body was not supposed to be there. What was different about how the 95th person was killed? He was a girl in disguise His hands were not bound He was strangled All of the above

10. When Ruald the potter left his home to join the order of the Benedictines at Shrewsbury Abbey, he left his wife Generys behind after many years of marriage. She disappeared a short while later. A year later a body was dug up by a plow in a field near the original home of the potter. It was believed to be the body of the potter's wife. How did Generys die? Bludgeoned Poison She was too decomposed to tell Strangled