Paul's Reviews > Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

This is my second Sidney Chambers mystery. As a Canon and Anglican Vicar, I have an interest in his life. The time period of the 2 novels in the 1950's in Grantchester, outside Cambridge. The time is also during the reconstruction of Great Britain after WWII and the beginning of the Cold War.. Each book is divided into long chapters telling the story of a murder or mystery. At one point Sidney's Dad jokes, "There are more people dying in Grantchester that at the Somme."
This book begins with a professor and 2 students climbing the roof and spires of King's College Chapel. One slips to his death. Accident or murder? The last story involves Sidney travelling to Leipzig, East Germany, being arrested for a spy, then returning to the West just as the Berlin Wall is being erected. In the end, I just enjoy spending time in Fr. Sidney's world.