The Piper on the Mountain [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Ellis Peters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1993

When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is the verdict. Then his step-daughter Tossa receives a note suggesting Terrell was murdered--turning Tossa's long-planned European holiday with college friends into a hunt for the killer.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 342 pages
• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books; Lrg edition (December 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750505842
• ISBN-13: 978-0750505840
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,118,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun mystery, October 26, 2000

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This review is from: The Piper On the Mountain (Mass Market Paperback)

Fans of Ellis Peters's Inspector George Felse mystery series (the series she wrote before her more famous Brother Cadfael mysteries) will be very pleased with this book. Instead of George Felse, the hero of this story is George's son Dominic, who fans of the series have watched growing from a precocious adolescent to a teenager, and now to a very intelligent young man. On a trip with friends from university, Dominic stumbles accross a death which, although it was ruled an accident, may not have been so accidental after all. Not a little captivated by Tossa, the charming step-daughter of the dead man, he begins to investigate. The result is a clever, engaging mystery/suspense tale that will charm fans of the traditional British mystery.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful depiction of 1960's Slovakia, February 15, 2005

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S. Schwartz "romonko" (alberta canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Piper On the Mountain (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a beautiful book!. The descriptions that Ms. Peters gives of the mountainous country found in Slovakia in the 1960's are lyrical. It truly sounds a beautiful place! She's also crafted a quite clever mystery centred around a renowned mountain-climber who falls to his death on some rather small hills. This fact is enough for his stepdaughter to question what happened to cause his death, and for her to set out with three friends to find out more about it. The book centres around Sir George Felse's son Dominic, and Ms. Peters has written a wonderful character in this young man. This is a very captivating book!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Smoothly Written But Extremely Contrived, June 23, 2005

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This review is from: The Piper On the Mountain (Mass Market Paperback)

Best known for her "Brother Cadfael" series, Ellis Peters (1913-1985) was also the author of thirteen novels featuring Inspector George Felse. Published in 1966, THE PIPER ON THE MOUNTAIN is the fifth novel in that series.

Peters often worked with contrived plots, and that tendency is particularly obvious in this tale. Government security agent Herbert Terrell, who is fond of mountain climbing, falls to his death while on vacation in Czechoslovakia's Tatras Mountains--but the nature of the accident seems a bit odd to Robert Welland, assigned to the British embassy at Prague, and he suspects foul play. When Welland accidentally communicates his suspicions to Terrell's stepdaughter Tossa Barber, Tossa turns a student vacation to Europe into a search for the truth, and since Inspector Felse's son Dominic is in her party can Inspector Felse be far behind?

Unfortunately, however, the novel offers too little in the way of plot to sustain itself over the course of its two hundred pages--and although it offers an occasionally interesting look at Cold War era Czechoslovakia this is not really enough to hold a consistent interest. Even so it is smoothly written in the Ellis Peters style, and while I would not recommend it to newcomers to the series, established fans will likely enjoy it.

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