Kate Sedley
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Kate Sedley is the pen-name of Brenda Margaret Lilian Honeyman Clarke, an English historical novelist. She was born in Bristol in 1926 and educated at The Red Maid's School, Westbury-on-Trym. She is married and has a son and a daughter, and one granddaughter. Her medieval historical whodunnit
s feature Roger the Chapman, who has given up a monk's cell for the freedom of peddling his wares on the road.
Historical whodunnit
The historical whodunnit is a sub-genre of historical fiction which bears elements of the classical mystery novel, in which the central plot involves a crime and the setting has some historical significance. One of the big areas of debate within the community of fans is what makes a given setting...
s feature Roger the Chapman, who has given up a monk's cell for the freedom of peddling his wares on the road.
Roger the Chapman
- Death and the Chapman (1991)
- The Plymouth Cloak (1992)
- The Hanged Man aka The Weaver's Tale (1993)
- The Holy Innocents (1994)
- The Eve of Saint Hyacinth (1995)
- The Wicked Winter (1995)
- The Brothers of Glastonbury (1997)
- The Weaver's Inheritance (1998)
- The Saint John's Fern (1999)
- The Goldsmith's Daughter (2001)
- The Lammas Feast (2002)
- Nine Men Dancing (2003)
- The Midsummer Rose (2004)
- The Burgundian's Tale (2005)
- Prodigal Son (2006)
- The Three Kings of Cologne (2007)
- The Green Man (2008)
- The Dance of Death (2009)
- The Wheel of Fate (2010)
- The Midsummer Crown (2011)
External links
- Sedley short biography at Fantastic Fiction
- Sedley at Macmillan