Lord Darcy (other)

	Lord Darcy (other) Lord Darcy may refer to: * Lord Darcy (character), a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett ''Lord Darcy Investigates'', a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy ''Lord Darcy'' (omnibus), a 1983 omnibus collection of two previous fantasy collections and one fantasy novel by Randall Garrett See also Baron Darcy (other) Baron Darcy may refer to the following baronies: Baron Darcy of Nocton, created 1299, abeyant circa 1350 Baron Darcy de Knayth, created 1332, presently extant Baron Darcy de Darcy Baron Darcy de Darcy, also known as Baron Darcy of Temple Hur ... {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lord Darcy (character) Lord Darcy is a detective in a fantasy alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world with an alternate history that is different from our own and that is governed by the rules of magic rather than the rules of physics. Despite the magical trappings, the Lord Darcy stories play fair as whodunnits; magic is never used to "cheat" a solution, and indeed, the mundane explanation is often obscured by the leap to assume a magical cause. Title character Lord Darcy is the Chief Forensic Investigator or Chief Criminal Investigator for the Duke of Normandy (Prince Richard, the brother of the king), and sometime Special Investigator for the High Court of Chivalry. An Englishman, he lives in Rouen, but spends very little time there. The audience learns that he speaks Anglo-French with an English accent, and that he speaks several languages and dialects fluently. His full name is never given; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lord Darcy Investigates ''Lord Darcy Investigates'' is a collection of short stories by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback in 1981 by Ace Books, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was later gathered together with ''Murder and Magic'' (1979) and ''Too Many Magicians'' into the omnibus collection '' Lord Darcy'' (1983, expanded 2002). The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines ''Analog Science Fact & Fiction'' in October 1974 and December 1976, and June 1965, ''Fantastic'' in May 1976, ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in April 1979. The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, in which King John never reigned and most of Western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lord Darcy (omnibus) ''Lord Darcy'' is a 1983 omnibus collection of two previous fantasy collections and one fantasy novel by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy, published by Doubleday as a selection in its Science Fiction Book Club. The component books had originally been published in 1966, 1979 and 1981. The collection was reissued in 1999. A second edition, edited by Eric Flint, was published by Baen Books in 2002. The second edition reorganized the contents, added two stories not included in the original edition or its component volumes, and was edited slightly to remove duplicative material. The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, in which King John never reigned and most of western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]