Ellis Peters was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for her medieval whodunnits. Philip Madoc stars as Brother Cadfael, priest-turned-sleuth, solving mysteries in Shrewsbury in a series of BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations that teem with twelfth-century suspense. In Dead Man`s Ransom, Brother Cadfael is drawn from the peace of the Abbey to the civil war raging in the outside world and uncovers a tale of mystery, murder, romance and deceit.