Author: Randall Garrett
Volumes: 2
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
1963 - 1965 - Lord Darcy
(The Eyes Have It - A Case of Identity - The Muddle of the Woad)
PUBLISHING NORTH
Fantacollana No. 4
There is a kind of fantasy fiction that speaks of the possible future, and another which describes the possible present. Are those novels that explain, for example, what would have happened if Napoleon had not been defeated at Waterloo. This novel is about just one of these universes, and in this sense is certainly an exception rather than simply choose, for the "deviation", some event in the recent past, the author has moved up to the twelfth century. The world he describes, then, had almost a thousand years to evolve independently, after being disconnected from history as we know it. A world without atomic and without problems of pollution, which is administered by a Church that has never needed the Inquisition, and ruled by a monarchy that, while not exactly parliamentary democracy, however, is enough to get along without revolutions. This bizarre mixture of tradition and modernity is the backdrop to the adventures of Lord Darcy (Chief Investigator of His Royal Highness Prince Richard, Duke of Normandy), here involved in solving some brilliantly tangled police cases. Lord Darcy is not so much a violent arm of the law, especially as a lover of art deductive. But one thing is certain: the methods of his "scientific team" is very different from the classical while magnifying glass for Sherlock Holmes!
1968 - The Locked Room
(Too Many Magicians)
PUBLISHING NORTH
Fantacollana No. 16
"If you've already met him, surely remember the 'this alternative' imagined by Randall Garrett so happy. This is the world in which Richard the Lionheart survived the wicked King John, when the Plantagenets still reign in France and England combined, over the entire New World, in which the Cold War takes place between Poland and the West, and which were discovered in the Laws of Magic instead the laws of science. "This novel, in particular, is a pleasant mix of spies, magical arts, a" murder in a locked room, "Investigation of miraculous and other tasty condiments. The survey was again entrusted to the capable hands of our friend, Lord Darcy, Chief Investigator of HRH Richard, Duke of Normandy, and his colleague Sean O Lochlainn, Chief Forensic Magician of the court of Anjou, who was almost immediately imprisoned in Tower of London. For good measure we have an Aztec specializes in the research of witchcraft and many other magicians have gathered for their triennial congress. We have not one, but three murders, and some vile black magic along with the good, clean, pragmatic forensic magic. We have the Marquis of London - a sort of Nero Wolfe - two very beautiful women practice magic arts, as well as their natural and felons from all sides. "And we especially good fun. "
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