Brother Cadfael, the medieval mystery-solving monk, is a fascinating detective, at once a man of God, of science, and even of action. Derek Jacobi stars as the former "soldier, sailor, sinner, and Crusader" who has his faith tested by crimes of royal intrigue and baffling murders that seem to plague 12th-century Shrewsbury. You'll find few Benedictine monks so skilled at using a quarterstaff, but beware never to tell him your theory of how a crime "must" have been committed. "We must always be wary of 'must'," he states. "Nothing is certain." And so attest these divine... mysteries based on the books by Ellis Peters. Each feature-length episode is self-contained but plays against the backdrop of England's civil war between forces loyal to King Stephen and those to Empress Maud. Eoin McCarthy costars as local Under-Sheriff Hugh Beringar, who relies on Cadfael when murder subverts his efforts to keep the peace. --Donald Liebenson [show more]
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All four episodes of the first season of this drama series starring Derek Jacobi as the medieval sleuth In the opening episode&39; One Corpse Too Many&39; Cadfael once a man of the world has become a man of the cloth However this by no means qualifies him as a saint He discovers a murder and sets out in pursuit of the perpertrator assisted by a lovely young fugitive &39;The Sanctuary Sparrow&39; sees Brother Cadfael investigating the murder of the local goldsmith In &39;The Leper of St Giles&39; a great wedding is to take place in the Abbey of Shrewsbury between Baron Huon and Iveta De Massard Iveta is a beautiful kind soul and on the day she and her betrothed ride into the town she throws money to the lepers but her brutish Baron beats them On the eve of the wedding he rides off into the night never to return Cadfael sets out to find out what is going on Whilst in &39;Monk&39;s Hood&39; a landowner cuts his son-in-law out of his will leaving his inheritance to the church However before the transaction is finished Gervase Gurney is poisoned whilst staying at the Abbey of Shrewsbury Cadfael finds someone from his past as he looks into the poisoning
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