Ten Little Wizards
OCLC 17729826 | | |
| Preceded by | Lord Darcy Investigates | |
|---|---|---|
| Followed by | A Study in Sorcery | |
Ten Little Wizards is a novel by Michael Kurland featuring Randall Garrett's alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in March 1988; a trade paperback edition and ebook edition were issued by the Borgo Press imprint of Wildside Press in 2011. An audio-book version was published by Audible Studios in April 2015. The book has been translated into Italian.[1]
The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of
The title is an allusion to Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers, also published as Ten Little Indians, a classic of detective literature which is now almost always referred to by its US title, And Then There Were None.
Plot summary
Someone is killing wizards, and doing so apparently without the use of magic. Lord Darcy is sent to investigate. He must uncover the murderer and ascertain whether the whole business is a ploy to kill the king himself.
To complicate matters Darcy must investigate during the preparations for the investiture of Gwiliam,
Reception
The book was reviewed by Tom Whitmore in Locus no. 324, January 1988, and Don D'Ammassa in Science Fiction Chronicle no. 104, May 1988.[1]
References
- ^ a b Ten Little Wizards title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20061021032309/http://www.michaelkurland.com/frontpage.shtml Michael Kurland]
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