-=>While in the White Hart, Steven Horn explained to Fred Runk that<=-
 SH> Fred, I have a paperback copy of the 20th chronicle published in
 SH> Canada in  1995 but it makes no reference to Ellis Peters' death.  I 
 SH> had hoped she would have been able to carry through the 
 SH> history until Henry II's ascension to the throne in 1154 
 SH> but I suppose we will have to live with its end.
Ah, my copy reads first paperback printing, Feb. 1996, which I presume means
first in US.
My knowledge of English history is not that good, so I hadn't known about
the civil war between Stephen and Maud.  I even went to the encyclopedia
when I first began reading the series to make sure this was real, and not a
fictional conflict.  I then deliberately avoided reading more about the
conflict and its resolution, so I could get some idea of how it felt to be
in the midst of the war and not know the resolution.
As you say, though, there will be no more, so I pulled out my ency. and did
a little reading to see how it did end.  It looks as though there was plenty
of material there for Peters.
I would have enjoyed meeting Henry II and seeing him through Brother
Cadfael's eyes.  I wonder about Eustace though.  Is much known about him?
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