FOR THE FIRST TIME—ALL OF
LORD DARCY'S AMAZING ADVENTURES
IN ONE HUGE VOLUME
Welcome to a world . . . where Richard the Lion-Hearted did not die in the year 1199, but went on to found the mightiest and most stable empire in history . . . where the laws of Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) have been codified, but those of physics remain unsuspected ... where magic is a science, and science is an art.
Meet the greatest detective of all time, Lord Darcy, Chief Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, and his assistant, Master Sorcerer Scan O'Lochlainn. In a world where crime and the occult walk hand in hand, a world of murder and magic, they combine occult skills and uncanny powers of deduction to bring criminals to the King's Justice and thwart those who plot against the Realm.
It's urban fantasy by gaslight in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence, and no matter whether murder is committed by magic most foul or by more mundane means, crime still does not pay—as long as Lord Darcy is on the case.
| Publisher's Note: Parts of Lord Darcy were published separately as Too Many Magicians, Murder and Magic, and Lord Darcy Investigates. This is the first complete Lord Darcy. |
"He has combined the best of the fantasy and detective genres— and made them work as science fiction."
—Marion Zimmer Bradley
"I cannot count the number of times I have read Too Many Magicians [included in Lord Darcy]—each time with the same pleasure."
—Andre Norton
"Randall Garrett's most satisfying and enduring literary accomplishment is the Lord Darcy series."
—Robert Silverberg
"Garrett's best work . . . ingenious, and the world Lord Darcy inhabits is rich and believable."
—A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction
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Product ReviewAlready read it umpteen times in paper, and like it so much I am now buying it for my eReader !
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Product ReviewWould be nice to have Michael Kurland's Lord Darcy stories as a companion e-volume.
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Product ReviewI first read these stories years ago and they're still charming and adorable.
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Product ReviewSome series just go on and on and on. But others are all too brief. The Lord Darcy was the latter, but we should be grateful for what is there.
It's a fantasy version of the mystery and spy genre, set in a meticulously crafted alternative universe where magic works (or perhaps rather, has been discovered). I don't think Darcy is patterned after any one investigator or spy, he's far too different than Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick is no Watson, but a forensic sorcerer. You can though recognize analogs of many famous detectives in the short stories.
Beyond that, just how they are written is a pure joy to read - completely in the style of the alternative universe that is more like Victorian (or earlier) England.Posted on
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Product ReviewA really good read. The magic is carefully controlled so that it sounds plausible even if it does not solve the crime, merely giving the clues. The last story is best read first despite what the editors say. After all it does tell us how the two investigators first met and that comes rather oddly at the end!
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Product ReviewThoroughly enjoyable, especially the full novel "Too Many Magicians" where the story is allowed to blossom.
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Product ReviewClearly, this was written by a Doyle fan. The only thing missing is the violin and the cocaine. The rest is uncannily similar to Sherlock Holmes if he was trapped in a world where magic worked and King Richard returned to England. I enjoyed the reading but, it's too much like Holmes for me to give it five stars which I reserve for unique and original works which this is not.
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