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Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death

Runcie, James, 1959-2013
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The first in a series of six detective novels which move from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953 to the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981, 'Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death' introduces an unforgettable and unlikely new hero in the form of a crime-fighting vicar with a keen interest in cricket, warm beer and hot jazz. Grantchester Mysteries 1 Now a major, prime-time six-part series Grantchester for ITV Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. 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 jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter and a shocking art forgery, the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty...
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London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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392 pages ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: 2012.
ISBN:
9781408831403 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PS3568.U463
Language:
English
BRN:
332904
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