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Canon Sidney Chambers blends pastoral devotion with detective work in a tale of intrigue and humor. When a Cambridge don falls from King's College Chapel, a glamour photographer’s studio is set ablaze, and a bowler is poisoned, Sidney and his faithful Labrador, Dickens, trail the clues. Accompanied by Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney also contemplates love and loyalty while a looming political upheaval threatens to entangle him in espionage at the height of the Berlin Wall’s construction.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: James Runcie
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