Burt, Chris

Overview

Works:	82 works in 111 publications in 2 languages and 4,897 library holdings
Roles:	Producer, fme
Classifications:	pn1992.77, 791.4572

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Chris Burt

Publications by Chris Burt

Most widely held works by Chris Burt

Sharpe's battle ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 373 libraries worldwide
British officer Richard Sharpe is given the task of preparing the hitherto purely ceremonial Royal Irish Company for real battle. The commander's ambitious wife and false rumors of a massacre in Ireland complicate the job.

Sharpe's gold ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 366 libraries worldwide
Hunting for lost Aztec gold, Sharpe runs afoul of a local partisan leader; Wellington's cousin Bess, searching for her lost gold-prospecting husband, shows up with her daughter and gets mixed up in the mess.

Sharpe's sword ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 356 libraries worldwide
Sharpe is sent to protect El Mirador, Wellington's best spy, and finds himself a target of Colonel Leroux, a ferocious French swordsman who has been commanded to capture El Mirador. When Sharpe is wounded in battle, a mute French convent girl comes to his aid.

Inspector Lewis. Series 2 ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 350 libraries worldwide
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to lock horns with the town's elite; a fantasy author finds himself linked to an investigation of murder; the murder of an unpopular student-actor gives many potential suspects and motives; called to investigate a brutal murder, Hathaway's attention may be drifting elsewhere.

Goodnight Mister Tom ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 323 libraries worldwide
A cantankerous old man, Tom Oakley (Thaw), finds his life irrevocably changed. During World War II little Willie Beech (Robinson) is evacuated from London and sent to live with Tom. A strong bond develops between the pair. However Willie's mother summons him back to the unexpected terrors of Blitz-torn London. Aware of the nightmare that awaits the boy, Tom is forced to act to save the child ... and has to fight to keep him.

Inspector Morse, the remorseful day collection set ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1998 and 2009 in English and held by 307 libraries worldwide
Inspector Morse and his partner solve mysteries and bring murderers to justice.

Inspector Lewis. Series I ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 236 libraries worldwide
Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when an old classmate of Linn's is found dead. In Old school ties, Lewis comes face to face with his past when the murder of bright young Jo Gilchrist pulls Lewis and Hathaway into a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics. In Expiation, when a North Oxford housewife is found hanged, it appears to be an open and shut case of suicide. But though she leaves a devastated husband and two young daughters, she left no suicide note. The missing note and victim's seemingly perfect life leads Lewis to suspect foul play.

Inspector Lewis. The pilot and complete 1st series ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 231 libraries worldwide
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training assignment? Next, Lewis and Hathaway return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three more mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures when an old classmate of his is found dead. In Old school ties, Lewis comes face to face with his past when the murder of bright young Jo Gilchrist pulls Lewis and Hathaway into a case driven by celebrity, scheming, and dangerous sexual politics. In Expiation, when a North Oxford housewife is found hanged, it appears to be an open and shut case of suicide. But the lack of a suicide note and the victim's seemingly perfect life leads Lewis to suspect foul play.

The ghost in the machine ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in English and held by 196 libraries worldwide
Valuable paintings are stolen from the estate of Sir Julius Hanbury, and when Sir Julius himself disappears Morse and Sergeant Lewis are called upon to investigate the minds and morals of the aristocracy to solve the mystery.

The daughters of Cain ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in English and held by 191 libraries worldwide
"Suspects abound after the murder of Dr. Felix McClure and so do their alibis. A retired university Fellow is stabbed to death in cold blood and Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis are plunged back into the heart of Oxford's academic world. An apparent routine investigation for the two detectives is complicated as they unravel a story of undergraduate suicide, drugs in college and the dismissal of a college scout."--Container.

Inspector Morse. Deadly slumber ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 188 libraries worldwide
Avril Steppings is permanently brain damaged after a minor operation. When the doctor who runs the clinic that treated Avril is murdered, Inspector Morse has an immediate suspect, Avril's father.

Inspector Morse. The wench is dead ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 167 libraries worldwide
"On a June morning in 1859, the body of a young woman was found by the Oxford Canal. In the present day, recovering after an operation in hospital, Morse is visited by Adele Cecil (Judy Loe) and American scholar Millie Van Buren (Lisa Eichhorn) whose book on the murder becomes his preoccupation. Morse soon becomes convinced that the two boatmen publicly hanged for the murder of the respectably married Joanna Franks were the victims of a gross miscarriage of justice. Inspector Morse is joined by Adrian Kershaw (Matthew Finney), a young graduate police constable, who assists him in his investigations."--Container.

Inspector Morse. Twilight of the gods ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 161 libraries worldwide
While celebrations are taking place at the new college building at Oxford, Morse and Lewis look into the murder of a freelance journalist, who was working on an article about college benefactor Bayden.

The way through the woods ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 158 libraries worldwide
The Lovers Lane Killer is dead. The man accused of murdering five people has himself been killed in a prison fight before his trial. The body of Karen Anderson, supposedly the killer's fifth victim, was never found. Although her bag was recovered at the bottom of the lake at Blenheim, Morse is convinced that Karen's remains are in Wytham Woods. When a body is discovered at Blenheim, Morse and Sergeant Lewis are on the case. Will the woods at Wytham yield up their secrets to Morse and Lewis?

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3 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 95 libraries worldwide

Inspector Lewis. Series 4 ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 92 libraries worldwide
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.

Into the blue ( Visual )
in English and held by 91 libraries worldwide
While living in the mansion of a multi-millionaire friend, a failed businessman finds himself involved in the murder of two young women.

Lytton's diary complete collection ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 86 libraries worldwide
London gossip columnist Neville Lytton strives to expose the hidden side of the lives of the high and mighty.

Inspector Lewis. Series I, Whom the gods would destroy ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 42 libraries worldwide
Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In this episode, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when an old classmate of Linn's is found dead.

Inspector Lewis. Series I, Expiation ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In this episode, when a North Oxford housewife is found hanged, it appears to be an open and shut case of suicide. But though she leaves a devastated husband and two young daughters, she left no suicide note. The missing note and victim's seemingly perfect life leads Lewis to suspect foul play.