Chaloner, Thomas (Fictitious character)

The butcher of Smithfield by Susanna Gregory( Book )
2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 587 libraries worldwide

The Westminster poisoner by Susanna Gregory( Book )
4 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 524 libraries worldwide
After the Puritan ban on Christmas festivities Restoration London is awash with excess between Christmas Eve and Twelfth Night, but the two men found in Westminster Hall had not died from a surfeit of gluttony, but from poison. The Lord Chancellor appoints Chaloner as his investigator into the killiings, believing them to be of scant importance to the affairs of state he deals with. But Chaloner reveals a stinking seam of corruption in the Palace of White Hall, where even the Queen is a victim to the greed of courtiers and functionaries. And the pickings are so rich that men are prepared to go to any lengths to save their own skins and their stolen fortunes.

A murder on London Bridge by Susanna Gregory( Book )
3 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 519 libraries worldwide
Thomas Chaloner, spy for the Earl of Clarendon, finds himself investigating the murder of his latest subject when someone kills the man in broad daylight on the London Bridge.

The body in the Thames by Susanna Gregory( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 362 libraries worldwide
London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality.

A conspiracy of violence by Susanna Gregory( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Thomas was supposed to investigate the rumor that there is a cache of gold buried in the Tower of London. But he gets caught up in the mysterious death of a man in his boss's employ.

Blood on the Strand by Susanna Gregory( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Chaloner investigates the shooting of a beggar and learns the man has links to the powerful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He is in a race to discover the true identity of the begger's murderer and save a blameless man from execution.