title: Lord Darcy
author: Randall Garrett
description: ***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** Welcome to the Anglo-French Empire, the dominion ruled by the descendants of King Richard the Lion-Hearted; who didn't die of an arrow wound in 1199 as he did in our world.     Here in the Angevin Empire, the 20th Century looks quite different. The Empire rules over much of Europe and the New World, challenged only by the weak but rapacious Polish Empire. In this world, Magic is a science, and Science is a primitive and suspect pursuit. But despite the many differences between the physical laws of this world and ours, one thing is still the same: human nature, in all its murderous manifestations.     Enter Lord Darcy.  With deductive powers to rival our Sherlock Holes, Lord Darcy is Chief Investigator for His Royal Highness Price Richard of Normandy. Assisted by the expert talents of Master Sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn, the Investigator must ferret out evil-doing wherever it appears in the kingdom.     This 3-in-1 volume features MURDER AND MAGIC, the full-length novel TOO MANY MAGICIANS and DARCY INVESTIGATES in a teaming of socery and sleuthing that will leave you spellbound.
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  ## Too Many Magicians
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Lord Darcy )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Randall Garrett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Novel length offering in the Lord Darcy series; where magic takes the place of
  technology and the investigator’s friend is suspected of murder by magic.
  
  
  
  
  
  Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Too Many Magicians
  
  
  ## by Randall Garrett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Commander Lord Ashley, Special Agent for His Majesty’s Imperial Naval
  Intelligence Corps, stood in the doorway of a cheap, rented room in a lower
  middle-class section of town near the Imperial Naval Docks in Cherbourg. The
  door was open, and a man lay on the floor with a large, heavy-handled knife in
  his chest.
  
  
  His lordship lifted his eyes from the corpse and looked around the room. It
  was small; not more than eight by ten feet, he thought, and the low ceiling
  was only a bare six inches above his head. Along the r