The Leper of St. Giles
This 90-minute Cadfael mystery gets under way when the lovely Iveta (Tara Fitzgerald) balks at the prospect of her arranged marriage to the wealthy and powerful Baron Huon. Amateur sleuth Brother Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) of Shrewbury Abbey is drawn in to the situation when both the Baron and Iveta’s guardian are found dead. Who did it? And why did the Baron ride off to parts unknown on the day of his wedding? Adapted by Paul Pendar from the novel by Ellis Peters, “The Leper of St. Giles” was originally telecast in England on June 12, 1994, then subsequently aired on the American public-TV anthology series Mystery., Derek Jacobi stars as the monk who solves mysteries. A wedding is due to take place between a powerful Baron and a beautiful young girl – or is it?, Cadfael’s on the case when a baron disappears the day before his prearranged marriage to a beautiful young woman., An arranged marriage between Baron Huon De Bomville and the beautiful Iveta De Massard is no love match, as Cadfael soon discovers. Huon is an uncharitable tyrant who strikes at lepers and is most unpopular with his own squires., A twelfth-century monk, who has settled down to a quiet religious life after a far-from-monastic youth, turns sleuth in another tale of medieval skulduggery. A great wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Shrewsbury, for a beautiful young girl and a powerful Baron – but he’s only interested in the contents of her dowry, not her heart. On the eve of the wedding he rides off into the night – and is never seen alive again.
