In 1980, the British Crime Writers Association awarded her the Silver Dagger for Monk's Hood. In 1993 she won the Cartier Diamond Dagger, an annual award given by the CWA to authors who have made an outstanding lifetime's contribution to the field of crime and mystery writing. Pargeter was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to Literature" in the 1994 New Year Honours. To commemorate Pargeter's life and work, in 1999 the CWA established their Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award (later called the Ellis Peters Historical Award) for the best historical crime novel of the year. Pargeter's Cadfael Chronicles are often credited for popularizing what would later become known as the historical mystery. Bibliography As Edith Pargeter Jim Benison a.k.a. The Second World War Trilogy The Eighth Champion of Christendom (1945) Reluctant Odyssey (1946) Warfare Accomplished (1947) The Heaven Tree Trilogy The Heaven Tree (1960) The Green Branch (1962) (1230 William De Braose, a Norman Marcher Lord was hanged for an affair with Joan, lady of Wales, the wife of Prince Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.) The Scarlet Seed (1963) The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet Four novels about Llewelyn the Last: Sunrise in the West (1974) The Dragon at Noonday (1975) The Hounds of Sunset (1976) Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) Other Hortensius, Friend of Nero (1936) Iron-Bound (1936) The City Lies Four-Square (1939) Ordinary People (1941) (a.k.a. People of My Own) She Goes to War (1942) The Fair Young Phoenix (1948) By Firelight (1948) (US title: By This Strange Fire) The Coast of Bohemia (1950) (non-fiction: an account of a journey in Czechoslovakia) Lost Children (1951) Tales of the Little Quarter (1951). Translation from Czech of the collection by Jan Neruda Most Loving Mere Folly (1953) The Rough Magic (1953) The Soldier at the Door (1954) A Means of Grace (1956) The Assize of the Dying (1958). 'The Assize of the Dying'; and 'Aunt Helen' ('The Assize of the Dying' was filmed, as The Spaniard's Curse, also in 1958) Legends of Old Bohemia (1964). Translation from Czech of the book by Alois Jirásek The Lily Hand and other stories (1965): 1995); see pseudonym Ellis Peters (books) (chron.): 'A Grain of Mustard Seed', 'Light-Boy', 'Grim Fairy Tale', 'Trump of Doom', 'The Man Who Met Himself', 'The Linnet in the Garden', 'How Beautiful is Youth', 'All Souls' Day', 'The Cradle', 'My Friend the Enemy', 'The Lily Hand, 'A