Series
Lord Darcy
Randall Garrett & Michael Kurland · 3 novels · 3 novellas · 6 novelettes · 1 short story · 2 collections · 1964–1989
Lord Darcy centers on Randall Garrett's investigator of the same name, a detective working an alternate history where functional magic stands in for our world's technology. Working alongside his forensic-sorcerer partner, Darcy solves closed-room mysteries and political crimes across a run of short stories and novels. After Garrett's death, Michael Kurland continued the character with further Lord Darcy novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Lord Darcy at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s4
- 1970s8
- 1980s3
Shape
3 novels · 3 novellas · 6 novelettes · 1 short story · 2 collections
2 authors
reads like:mystery & detectivemurder investigationalternate earthrenaissance and early modernmysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 86% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book14 of 15 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- A Study in Sorcerydarkest
- The Napoli Expressbrightest · most intense
- Murder and Magiccalmest