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Chargement... Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (Grantchester) by Runcie, James (2015) Paperback (2012)
Information sur l'oeuvreSidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death par James Runcie (2012) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "Sidney Chambers et l'ombre de la mort" de James Runcie rassemble six enquêtes policières dénouées par un chanoine anglican dans l'Angleterre des années 50. Vols, meurtres, homosexualité et euthanasie se succèdent dans la petite ville de Grantchester. Si l'idée est originale et le cadre évoqué avec crédibilité, on regrette une psychologie des personnages assez rudimentaire, des dénouements parfois abrupts et une morale un peu trop appuyée. ( )
... is a collection of stories set in a quaint English village during the 1950s and featuring a young Anglican vicar who finds spiritual inspiration in criminal investigation. Taken individually, each of these clerical whodunits poses a clever puzzle for armchair detectives. Viewed as a collective study of British life as it was lived when Elizabeth II first ascended the throne, these stories present a consistently charming and occasionally cutting commentary on “a postwar landscape full of industry, promise and concrete.” Appartient à la sérieEst contenu dans
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HTML:The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective. It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney is an unconventional clerical detective. He 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 jewelry theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a jazz promoter's daughter, and a shocking art forgery that puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective, like being a clergyman, means that you are never off duty, but he nonetheless manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket, warm beer, and hot jazz-as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior. With a whiff of Agatha Christie and a touch of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, The Grantchester Mysteries introduces a wonderful new hero into the world of detective fiction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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