Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
The grave of a Cornish poet reveals a centuries-old mystery and leads Detective Inspector Felse on a dangerous trail of secrets and crime.

While on a seaside vacation in Cornwall with his son, Dominic, Detective Inspector George Felse can't help but investigate a dark mystery of smuggling, missing bodies, and murder.

Jan Treverra was a legendary Cornish poet and smuggler who died two centuries ago. But when local scholar Simon Towne arranges to open Treverra's grave in search of his long-lost literary legacy, the tomb yields two dead bodies... and neither one is the body of Jan Treverra. In this derelict seashore graveyard, Felse uncovers a trail of violence in Maymouth's history that casts shadows centuries long... .

A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs is the 4th book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs. The Felse Investigations. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504027090 (December, 2015), eBook, 7.20 MB (ca. 192 p.), $8.99.

Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I."
So read the epitaph composed by Morwenna Treverra centuries ago as she followed her beloved husband, Jan, into death. The couple have been together ever since, models of pious content, in the little seaside Saxon church near the village of Maymouth. But when curious scholars arrange to open Jan Treverra's tomb, it yields not one body but two... and neither one of them is Jan Treverra.

Detective Inspector George Felse happens to be on holi- day nearby; indeed, he helped to open the crypt and reveal its all too modern contents. Now, from an ancient grave, a mystery unfolds; a trail of violence in Maymouth's nistory that casts shadows centuries long...

"Her style is brilliant." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"There is no mystery about Ellis Peters' international acclaim as a mystery writer." -- Chicago Sun-Times

Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs. An Inspector George Felse Mystery. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446400696 (May, 1992), 196 p., $4.99.

Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (UK 1988)

From the Publisher:
'Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I'
read the epitaph composed by Jan and Morwenna Treverra before their quiet deaths centuries ago. But the pious portrait of content they conjured fragments when permission is granted for their tombs to be opened - and an all too twentieth century corpse is found within.

An unfailing sense of strategic timing draws Detective Inspector George Felse to the scene, abandoning family, seaside and Cornish cream teas in favour of the vaults of Maymouth's little Saxon church. There, in the derelict seashore graveyard, a mystery unfolds, a trail of violence in Maymouth's history which casts shadows centuries long...

A NICE DERANGEMENT OF EPITAPHS - a classic mystery by Ellis Peters

Don't miss Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael mysteries, and the Heaven Tree trilogy (written as Edith Pargeter) also available from Futura

Ellis Peters: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs. An Inspector George Felse Mystery. Futura, ISBN: 0708837514 (April, 1988), 196 p., £2.99.