Mary Reed; Eric Mayer

A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery

1 - One for Sorrow (Sep-1999)
2 - Two for Joy (Oct-2000)
3 - Three for a Letter (Dec-2001)
4 - Four for a Boy (Feb-2003)
5 - Five for Silver (Mar-2004)
6 - Six for Gold (Nov-2005)
7 - Seven for a Secret (Apr-2008)
8 - Eight for Eternity (Apr-2010)
9 - Nine for the Devil (Mar-2012)
10 - Ten for Dying (Mar-2014)
11 - Murder in Megara (Oct-2015)
12 - An Empire for Ravens (Oct-2018)

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  One for Sorrow
  

  • Sep-1999
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 1
  

  In Byzantium, the capital of the 6th century Roman Empire, annual games are held to celebrate the founding of the city. Several courtiers, obliged by office to attend, idly watch the chariot races and the bear baiting from the imperial box. Suddenly ...

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  Two for Joy
  

  • Oct-2000
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 2
  

  Winner, the Glyph Award - Best MysteryHonorable Mention, Glyph Best Book Award list IPPY Best Mystery Award finalistJohn the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian, is skilled at keeping his footing on the treacherous slopes of court intri...

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  Three for a Letter
  

  • Dec-2001
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 3
  

  It's 539 AD, and John the Lord Chamberlain finds his investigations hampered by squabbling courtiers, servants with social ambitions, an eccentric host, and an egotistic inventor -- not to mention a herd of prophesying goats and a protective whale. T...

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  Four for a Boy
  

  • Feb-2003
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 4
  

  Nominee, Bruce Alexander History Mystery AwardBest Little Known Series, BooklistIt's unnaturally cold in Constantinople this winter of 525. The Emperor Justin is dying, and Theodora, the ambitious former actress his gravely ill successor Justinian in...

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  Five for Silver
  

  • Mar-2004
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 5
  

  Winner, Glyph Award for Best Book SeriesNominee, Bruce Alexander History Mystery AwardIn 542, Peter, John the Lord Chamberlain's elderly servant, claims a heavenly visitor revealed a murder to him. It transpires that Peter's old army friend has indee...

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  Six for Gold
  

  • Nov-2005
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 6
  

  Why are sheep in the remote Egyptian village of Mehenopolis cutting their own throats? That's the mystery Emperor Justinian inexplicably sends John, his Lord Chamberlain, to Egypt to solve. Mehenopolis is a pilgrim destination, thanks to its ancient ...

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  Seven for a Secret
  

  • Apr-2008
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 7
  

  Lord Chamberlain John spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian and passes the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square or afterw...

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  Eight for Eternity
  

  • Apr-2010
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 8
  

  In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a murderous backdrop lit by raging fires, John, Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those seeking to use the Nika Riots to dethrone the emperor. But are the ringl...

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  Nine for the Devil
  

  • Mar-2012
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 9
  

  The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead of disease. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes. Everyone except Emperor Justinian, who orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her murderer or suffer the consequence...

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  Ten for Dying
  

  • Mar-2014
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 10
  

  Ambition, intrigue, treachery, murder -- another Byzantine mystery…. 548 CE. It’s a hot summer night in Constantinople. Emperor Justinian is mourning his dead wife, Theodora. John, his Lord Chamberlain, has been exiled. And at the Church of th...

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  Murder in Megara
  

  • Oct-2015
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 11
  

  John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to a rustic estate John has long-owned in Greece, not far from where he grew up. But exile proves no escape from mystery and mayhem. The residents of nearby Megar...

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  Ruined Stones
  

  • Jul-2017
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  Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement...

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  An Empire for Ravens
  

  • Oct-2018
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  A John, the Lord Chamberlain Mystery - 12
  

  Missing treasure, murder, possible treason... Emperor Justinian's former Lord Chamberlain, John, gets a letter from his longtime comrade, Felix, and, placing loyalty to a friend above his own safety, risks defying imperial edict by leaving his exi...

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