Product Description: Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying "Old Chairs to Mend," Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was...read more

An exploration, through fiction, of a C18 mystery that lives on in the valley of Thursbitch. John Turner, a packman, died in a storm in 1755, and was found with a woman's footprint in the snow beside him. His death leaves an emotional charge that Ian and Sal find affects their own relationship.

Feeling restless despite his happy new marriage, Roger the Chapman returns to Plymouth, where a brutal murder and a missing chief suspect have been chalked up to witchcraft activities.

Product Description: 'The army makes a man hard sometimes. I remember a young girl no more than ten who gave me a glass of buttermilk just outside of Chancellorsville. I still remember that. I guess that's all my life is. Some pictures fading out behind me, and there's not much before me...read more

Following the disappearance of two brothers, the Duke sends Roger, a trustworthy traveling chapman, to accompany the bride of one of the men to the town where the men vanished.

Medieval amateur sleuth Roger the Chapman returns in a mystery involving the murders of two children and becomes deeply embroiled in the case when he stays in the house from which they had disappeared.

Product Description: Roger the Chapman, London-bound in 1471, is asked to investigate the disappearance of the son of a wealthy Bristol merchant. His enquiries uncover a criminal conspiracy, and before long he finds that his own life is at risk.

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Medieval sleuth Roger the Chapman sets out to uncover the traitorous spy who has infiltrated the household of the Duke of Gloucester, the brother of King Edward IV, has killed the only man who could identify him, and is now targeting the duke himself.

Protecting a royal messenger who carries a crucial secret letter, Roger the Chapman begins a two days of dangerous adventure, and realizes that he must learn his companion's past if they are to survive. Reprint.

Roger the Chapman, a fifteenth-century pedlar and sleuth, grapples with heresy as he investigates his third mystery, which involves a murdered man who reappears only to die once again. By the author of Death and the Chapman.