Lord Darcy

By Randall Garrett,

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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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1 author picked Lord Darcy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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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