Book description
Welcome to a world where the Plantagenet kings survived, the laws of magic were discovered and the physical sciences never pursued. In the resulting Anglo-French Empire, a detective like Lord Darcy needs more than a keen mind and an observant eye. Luckily, Darcy can call on the aid of Master…
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Set in an alternate history environment in England, the Lord Darcy stories superbly combine the flair of an – albeit non-historical – “dark romantic” age with the classic whodunnit framework in a parallel world where magic is possible and can be used to solve crimes.
The archetypal characters of the highly intelligent detective and his brainy sidekick here give the reader a ‘prince-detective’ with a ‘mage-assistant’. The book is not new, but good reads do not go stale.
As a lover of both D. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels and magic wielded in bygone ages, I fell in love…
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