Death and Thraxas

THE CITY IS TURAI . . .

. . . where the rulers are corrupt, the politicians are worse, and the civic guards might try to solve a crime, except that they've really got better things to do. Overweight and somewhat uncouth, Thraxas may not look like a man of action, but if you're in trouble, this portly private eye is probably your only hope.

Not that Thraxas himself has much hope in the first of the two complete novels in this volume—A judge has fined him almost every guran he has, two old enemies have threatened his life, and his old commander in the army has just turned up dead. Naturally, Thraxas is the prime suspect . . . .

In his second case, Thraxas travels to the Elvish Isles to help an old friend in trouble. Of course, as soon as he arrives in the Isles, things start getting weird. But when the going gets weird, Thraxas gets going. . .

Praise from the British Press for the Exploits of Thraxas:

"Blindingly funny, deeply subversive . . . Martin Scott has invented a new genre: pulp fantasy noir." —The Guardian

"A pulp fiction hero par excellence." —SFX

"Funny and engaging. I laughed aloud." —Starburst

"Wonderful plotting, and the jokes come thick and fast. . . . This is funny. Really funny." —Black Tears

Cover art by Tom Kidd

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First U.S. printing, September 2004

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