Kate Sedley
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
Christmas, 1483: Roger the Chapman is looking forward to twelve days of peace and celebration with his wife and children in Bristol. The family is particularly excited by the arrival of a troupe of mummers, who will perform their plays in the outer ward of the castle throughout the festival. But the gruesome murders of two of the town's most prominent and venerable citizens, both veterans of the French wars, scupper Roger's hopes as he is gradually...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
An important discovery puts Roger the Chapman's life in danger . . . - In the autumn of 1483, Roger goes on an errand of mercy to Hereford, where he is caught up in the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion against the new king, Richard III. Roger takes refuge in Tintern Abbey, but on his return to Bristol, a murder and a series of house robberies lead him to the eventual discovery of the treasure stolen from the abbey on the night he was there. It also...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001, c1997
Description
Roger the traveling chapman should be on his way home to medieval Bristol after a nice summer's peddling. But, a request from his duke to escort a bride en route to her betrothed takes him toward Wells, where the groom and his brother have vanished.
Roger links the disappearances to the discovery of ancient scrolls written in a strange language. But, as he deciphers the archaic tongue, he concludes that a still-greater mystery lies at the heart...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Roger the Chapman is not a superstitious man. He hears stories of murders and haunted houses around the market town of Bristol, and chooses to believe the more prosaic explanation every time. But when Roger is attacked in the very house where a woman murdered her violent husband thirty years previously, he is forced to admit that something strange is going on . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992
Description
One man's disappearance is another man's destiny... The birth of a new medieval detective.
The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions rages on. But for Roger the Chapman, who has recently given up a monk's cell for freedom to be found peddling his wares on the open road, life goes on much as normal.
Until, that is, he gets caught up in the strange disappearance of Clement Weaver, only son...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A Roger the Chapman Mystery - Roger the Chapman is far from pleased when the King's Spymaster General commands him to accompany the manipulative Eloise Gray on a journey to Paris, pretending to be her husband. Roger guesses that the French king is making overtures to the Duke of Burgundy on behalf of the Dauphin – which could wreck the relationship with England's staunch ally and most important customer for her wool exports . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlier, robbed his mistress and murdered a fellow servant, and is thrown into prison, Roger feels obliged to investigate the charge.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The new Roger the Chapman mystery - In the sultry midsummer of 1483, as Richard of Gloucester begins his bid for the English crown, Roger returns home to Bristol, glad to be out of the capital. But almost immediately, the Duke recalls him to London to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young boy whose tutor has been found murdered, apparently in a locked room. It is an investigation which has as its background an ancient British legend,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Description
A nefarious plot will go right to the heart of the most powerful seat in the land...
Roger the Chapman returns to London in the summer of 1475 for some badly needed rest and entertainment. But, the hand of Fate interrupts his plans once again...
King Edward IV is readying his troops to invade France with a great show of strength, and though rumors abound that the king is reluctant, London is teeming with the energy of the march.
But, as the campaign...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A town paralyzed with fear, two children gone missing. Roger's most difficult case yet...
April 1475. As Roger approaches the thriving village of Totnes, danger crackles in the air. A pack of cutthroats wanders the forest after a night of pillaging, and Roger barely manages to hide from them in the brush.
He soon learns that the marauding band has been terrorizing the countryside for weeks. And worse, they are believed to be responsible for the disappearance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Things aren't going too well at home for Roger the Chapman and his wife, Adela. Their fourth child has died only days after being born and Roger fails to conceal his feelings of relief at having one less mouth to feed. Adela naturally resents his attitude and their bitter arguments become increasingly commonplace. Roger decides that to maintain harmony at home the best thing he can do is take up his pack and cudgel and once again leave Bristol to...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Description
It is October 1477 and Roger the Chapman, newly married and still enjoying wedded bliss in Bristol, England, is surprised to find his old, familiar feeling of restlessness returning. Within a month he is setting off, once again, on the ancient ridge road that dissects Dartmoor and heads for Plymouth, driven by some instinct that he is needed there.
Roger accepts a lift from a carter who is going to visit his daughter, Joanna, in the oldest part of...
15) Wheel of fate
Author
Series
Roger the Chapman tales volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010