Sidney Chambers

Father Sidney Chambers is a 32 year old man who had never intended to become a detective, nor really a Vicar. He loved warm beer(Perhaps he drank too much of in his own time), hot jazz, cricket, was a constant reader, and “was known for his understated clerical elegance.” Sidney’s love of jazz and for a dear friend Amanda—who he’s sure is beyond his marital reach—flow all through this book, along with his clerical assistant (the deeply-closeted Leonard), his rigid housekeeper, and his dog Dickens. “When Sidney had first met Amanda, soon after her twenty-first birthday, he has been rather smitten. She was the tall and vivacious daughter of a wealthy diplomat who had once been a colleague of his grandfather.” Sidney has many doubts in his life and in his church, but he is a good listener and his heart always seems to be in the right place.