Randal Garrett is a writer whose series of “detective fantasy” about the adventures of “the greatest private detective of parallel reality” - Lord Darcy - can only be compared with a similar series by Glen Cook. Randal Garrett's works are ironic, funny - and endlessly fascinating. Don't believe me? Read - and check for yourself! Welcome to the parallel 20th century! To a world similar in some ways to ours, but in other respects desperately different from ours! Science simply does not exist in this world - its place is taken by Magic. In this world criminals carry out their dark deeds with the help of secret sorcery - and an unsurpassed private detective, a brilliant master of the deductive method, Lord Darcy, in the service of the Duke of Normandy, solves the most complex criminal mysteries with the help of sorcery. So, before you - Sherlock Holmes from magic. You can imagine WHAT should, say, Professor Moriarty be like in such a world?