The Dragon Done It
Eric Flint and Mike Resnick, editors
Baen Books
PO Box 1403, Riverdale, NY 10471
9781416555285, $24.00 www.baen.com 1-800-223-2336
The Dragon Done It is an utterly engrossing anthology of fantasy
short stories with a noir twist! These private eyes live in worlds with
not only dames and guns, but also witches, magic, monsters, and even
creatures from nursery rhymes. From the return of John Justin Mallory
(the hero of Mike Resnick's "Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of
Tonite") in "The Long and Short of It", to a female
ex-cop recently turned vampire in Tanya Huff's "This Town
Ain't Big Enough", to Little Jack Horner in Neil Gaiman's
"The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds", to Santa Claus
himself, retired and down on his luck, in Michael M. Jones'
"Claus of Death", these sleuths adapt to their magical
settings with the same two-fisted grit characteristic of any classic
noir hero. Dragons per se may be in short supply, but dastardly
culprits, lying clients, and seedy urban alleys abound in this
thoroughly addictive treasury of 'whodunnits'. Highly
recommended.
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