Tales from Dragon Precinct - Decandido, Keith R. A.

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Résumé :
Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded port city of Cliff's End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters of business or pleasure-or on quests. The hard-working, under-appreciated officers of the Cliff's End Castle Guard work day and night to maintain law and order as best they can. This volume brings together ten pieces of short fiction-some previously published, some brand-new for this book-featuring the Castle Guard: new cases for Lieutenants Torin ban Wyvald and Danthres Tresyllione to solve, as they deal with animated furniture, a hrancit demon, a closet spewing filth, a senile dragon, and more. Plus one of Lieutenant Iaian's old cases comes back to haunt him, Lieutenants Dru and Hawk investigate a massacre committed by a vampire, the survivors of the heroic quest from Dragon Precinct return (and get into trouble), and the untold story of Danthres and Torin's first case together is finally told! Ten adventures of the Cliff's End Castle Guard!...

Biographie:
a cycle of urban fantasy stories set in Key West, Florida, collected in Ragnarok and Roll and Ragnarok and a Hard Place, both published by Plus One Press...

Sommaire:
Keith R.A. DeCandido has also taken inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work in Holmes-and-Watson short stories for Christopher D. Abbott's Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight series, and in his modern reinterpretations starring Shirley Holmes and Jack Watson in contemporary New York in the anthologies Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot, Multiverse of Mystery, and Eliminate the Impossible. In his three decades as a fiction writer he has penned more than 60 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 50 comic books. His work ranges from media tie-in tales in more than 30 different licensed universes from Alien to Zorro to fiction in his self-created milieus, such as the long-running Precinct series of epic fantasy police procedurals for eSpec Books. Recent and upcoming work includes the upcoming debut of his new fantasy series Supernatural Crimes Unit, the novels Phoenix Precinct and Feat of Clay (the most recent books in two other fantasy series), the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, the short-story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, the comic book adaptation of his serial killer novel Animal (in collaboration with co-author Dr. Munish K. Batra and artist J.K. Woodward), and short fiction in multiple issues of Star Trek Explorer, in the anthology series Phenomenons and Thrilling Adventure Yarns, and in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny, as well as in two anthologies he also co-edited, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms).Keith is also a prolific popular-culture prognosticator, with his reviews and think-pieces appearing regularly on the award-winning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com), as well as in various and sundry essay collections and magazines.In addition to all that, Keith is a martial artist (a fourth-degree black belt in karate), a musician (currently percussionist for the parody band Boogie Knights), and an editor of more than thirty-five years' standing (though he usually does it sitting down). Find out less at his hilariously primitive web site at DeCandido.net....