This document contains excerpts from the novel Black Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Heart by Ellis Peters, specifically the sixth book in the Felse Family series. The text includes the novel's title page, listing other works by Peters (including her Brother Cadfael Chronicles) and her real name, Edith Pargeter, along with copyright and publication details. The main body of the excerpts details a folk-music weekend course at a lavish but eccentric estate called Follymead, where the warden, Edward Arundale, and a popular folk-singer, Lucien Galt, mysteriously disappear, leading to a murder investigation by Detective Inspector George Felse (father of one of the attendees, Dominic). The narrative focuses on the escalating tension, rumors of a love triangle involving Lucien, a girl named Liri Palmer, and Arundale's niece, Felicity, culminating in the discovery of Arundale’s body and the subsequent questioning of Lucien Galt about the sequence of events and the weapon used.

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