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Blurb: “Welcome to the Anglo-French Empire, the great dominion ruled by the descendants of King Richard the Lion-Hearted
-who didn't die of an arrow wound in 1199 as he did in our world. Here in the Angevin Empire the 20th century looks quite a bit different. The Empire rules over much of Europe and the New World, challenged only by the weaker but rapacious Polish Empire ruled by Casimir IX.
In the Empire, nobility still rule from their castles (though most are by now furnished with elevators), Magic is a science, and Science is a primitive and suspect pursuit.
While politics and the physical laws may seem unfamiliar here, one thing you will recognize as immutable: human nature, in all its cunning and murderous manifestations.... ..And this is why the Empire has a need for the services of such men as Lord Darcy.
With deductive powers to rival our Sherlock Holmes, Lord Darcy is Chief Investigator for His Royal Highness Prince Richard of Normandy. Assisted by the expert magical talents of Master Sorcerer Sean O Lochlainn, the Investigator must ferret out evil-doing wherever it appears in the kingdom.
Within the three books gathered in this single volume, Lord Darcy faces some of his most puzzling cases: the odd discovery of an unidentified, blue-painted corpse -hidden in the coffin of the Duke of Kent....the most confounding death by defenestration of the Count de la
Vexin -who seems to have been pushed, but how did the murderer leave the locked and guarded room?...the shocking homicide committed in the most exclusive sleeping car of the famous Napoli Express-which requires Lord Darcy to come up with a solution as astonishing as the crime. and the novel-length dilemma of Too Many Magi-cians, in which the detective's enor-
mously fat, but equally brilliant cousin. the Marquis of London, gives Lord Darcy some unwelcome competition in a case involving black magic, sinister spies and a secret weapon that doesn't kill....
A truly original teaming of sorcery and sleuthing, Lord Darcy is guaranteed to leave you.. •spellbound.
Includes Murder and Magic, the full-length, novel Too Many Magicians, and Lord Darcy Investigates.