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Four & twenty blackbirds / Mercedes Lackey.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Lackey, M.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lackey, Mercedes.
- Series:
- Lackey, Mercedes. Bardic voices ; bk. 4.
- Bardic voices ; bk. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Other Title:
- Four and twenty blackbirds
- Place of Publication:
- [Riverdale, N.Y.] : Baen, 1998.
- Summary:
- A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower-class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed. Tal Rufen is just a simple constable. But he really cares about his job, and when one of these murder/suicides happens on his beat he becomes obsessed. His superiors don't care - the victims will never be missed, and their murderers are already justly dead. But every instinct Tal Rufen has cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and much nastier puzzle ...
- Notes:
- "A Baen Books original"--Title page verso.
- Jacket art by Darrell Sweet.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 303233
- ISBN:
- 0671878530
- 9780671878535
- OCLC:
- 43327375
- Publisher Number:
- 20096 Science Fiction Book Club
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