Talk:Lord Darcy Investigates

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Except bibliographic data on previous publication of the stories in the second paragraph, which should be relocated to the list of Contents, the text of this Stub matches that for the first book in the series, the collection Murder and Magic. There is nothing specific to any of the stories in this material and it is redundant to the much longer Lord Darcy (character) --nominally a fictional character article; really a book series article. --P64 (talk) 21:55, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Genre

second of two sections posted at once -P64

In our book article Too Many Magicians, about the only long story in the series, we say "The book uses the conventions of a detective story. ... The novel is a locked room mystery ...". In the main article Lord Darcy (character), we say in the lead, "Despite the magical trappings, the Lord Darcy stories play fair as whodunnits; magic is never used to "cheat" a solution ...".

Are the short stories primarily thrillers, crime fiction, mystery fiction, detective fiction rather than or at least as much as the three speculative fiction subgenres that we list here? --P64 (talk) 21:55, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]