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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    July 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Roger the Chapman

1 - Death and the Chapman (Jan-1992)
2 - The Plymouth Cloak (Jan-1993)
3 - The Weaver's Tale (1993)
4 - The Holy Innocents (1994)
5 - The Eve of Saint Hyacinth (May-1996)
6 - The Wicked Winter (1996)
7 - The Brothers of Glastonbury (Sep-1997)
8 - The Goldsmith's Daughter (Aug-2001)
9 - The Weaver's Inheritance (Sep-2001)
10 - The Saint John's Fern (Aug-2002)
11 - The Lammas Feast (Sep-2002)
12 - Nine Men Dancing (Aug-2003)
13 - The Burgundian's Tale (Jun-2005)
14 - The Prodigal Son (Apr-2006)
15 - The Three Kings of Cologne (Apr-2007)
16 - The Green Man (May-2008)
17 - The Dance of Death (May-2009)
18 - Wheel of Fate (May-2010)
19 - The Midsummer Crown (Jun-2011)
20 - The Tintern Treasure (Jul-2012)
21 - The Christmas Wassail (Jul-2013)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Young Roger the Chapman--or peddler--earns his living selling lace and silk throughout the English countryside, but solving puzzles is his real passion. When he's approached by a wealthy alderman to find his missing son, Roger jumps at the chance to ...



  • Young Roger the Chapman is a seller of goods as well as a solver of puzzles and is known as a man of integrity and ingenuity. Asked to provide trustworthy protection to a royal messenger carrying a crucial secret letter--a man with seemingly as many ...



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    Roger the Chapman, the 15th-century peddler with a 20th-century wit, returns to solve a mystery steeped in heresy and danger. When Roger, the wandering chapman, fell ill during his travels, two kind strangers nursed him back to health. In return, ...



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    SPRING IS IN THE AIR -- AND SO IS DANGER In his wanderings throughout the countryside, Roger the Chapman has solved many a mystery with his quick wit and keen intelligence. Arriving in the village of Totnes, the peddler-cum-sleuth hears the fright...



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    Despite the chills of winter, Roger the chapman relishes the freedom of his calling. Journeying west, he finds himself following in the footsteps of an itinerant preacher, Brother Simeon, whose sermons are the talk of the countryside. Roger, who's me...



  • 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 Ed...



  • AUGUST, 1476: ROGER THE TRAVELING chapman--whose sharp wit and tender heart have been involved in affairs touching the mightiest and the humblest in the land--ought to be on his way home to Bristol after a peaceful summer's peddling. But a request fr...



  • Sometimes dead men tell the most interesting tales...New Year's, 1474, finds Roger the Chapman collapsed with fever after wandering the frozen roads of Western England. Taken in by widow Margaret Walker and her daughter, Lillis, in the ancient tradin...



  • Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots, trying to find a way to save George from being put to death by their eldest brother, King Edward IV. Once again, Roger the Chapman must use his special investigative powers in this medieval mystery....






  • The year is 1476, and after a hard winter hawking his wares through the ice and rain, Roger the Chapman is looking forward to spending Christmas in Bristol, enjoying the warm hearth and good food of his mother-in-law Margaret--even if it means the yo...



  • 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 ...



  • Fifteenth-century sleuth Roger the Chapman looks into the death of despised Jasper Fairbrother, whose murder may be tied to three subsequent killings, while the town baker's simple-minded wife repeatedly abducts the Chapman's new baby....



  • The twelfth in the highly acclaimed Roger the Chapman series In the bitter winter of 1478, Roger the Chapman takes to the roads once again to sell his wares. His long-suffering wife Adela is happy to let him go, on condition that he promises to retur...



  • The new title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series Roger is summoned by the Duke of Gloucester to assist in the investigation into the murder of the son of a lady-in-waiting to Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, who is on a triumphant return visit t...



  • 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 earlie...



  • Two great forces fight for England ? and one woman is torn between them It is 1642, and civil war is beginning to split England in half. The dashing Cavaliers swear loyalty to the Crown; the stern Puritans vow to risk all for liberty and their mighty...



  • When the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier and was known to have had three secret lovers, are discovered on nunnery land, Roger the Chapman is called in. Faced with the task of tracking down three people of whom he...



  • A Roger the Chapman Mystery - Summer,1482. An English army invades Scotland in order to put King James the Thirds renegade younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger the Chapman, be a membe...



  • 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 ...






  • In fifteenth-century London, the child-king is not the only one under threat - 1483. Amidst the chaos following the death of King Edward IV, Roger the Chapman is called to London to investigate a threat to the Godslove family. In the past year, there...



  • 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 disappe...



  • 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 tak...



  • 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...



  • 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 w...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kate Sedley has published 24 books.

Kate Sedley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Christmas Wassail, was published in July 2013.

The first book by Kate Sedley, Death and the Chapman, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Kate Sedley has 1 series.