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Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 1
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the colour of hazelnuts and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend, Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a scandalous jewelery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second in a series of detective novels set against the backdrop of 30 years of British history, featuring an unforgettable and unlikely hero, Sidney Chambers.
"The loveable full time priest and part time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures in late 1950's Cambridge. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador Dickens, and working in tandem with the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called on...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Our favorite clerical detective is back with four longer mysteries in which Canon Sidney Chambers attempts to stop a serial killer with a grievance against the clergy; investigates the disappearance of a famous painting after a distracting display of nudity by a French girl in an art gallery; uncovers the fact that an "accidental" drowning on a film shoot may have been something more sinister; and discovers the reasons behind the theft of a baby...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a latest Grantchester mystery set in 1960s Cambridge, a man seeks sanctuary after killing his wife, a friend is pursued by a mysterious stranger, a man is accidentally crushed by a piano and Sydney is wrongly accused of theft.
The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective, Canon Sidney Chambers, continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. On a snowy Thursday morning in Lent 1964, a stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester's...
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects six new stories featuring the priest and part-time detective Sidney Chambers, in which he helps a youth in a hippie commune, a student who is divested of a family heirloom, and his former curate, who has been tied to an arson attack.
Author
Series
Grantchester mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in the woods with his daughter Anna and their aging Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so it is that Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a world of hippies, folk singers, and psychedelic plants, where...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just...