Lord Darcy is a 1983 omnibus collection of two previous fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 collections and one fantasy novel by Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s...

 featuring his alternate history

Alternate history (fiction)

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; different alternate...

 detective

Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...

 Lord Darcy, published by Doubleday as a selection in its Science Fiction Book Club. The component books had originally been published in 1966, 1979 and 1981. The collection was reissued in 1999. A second edition, edited by Eric Flint

Eric Flint

Eric Flint is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.- Career :...

, was published by Baen Books

Baen Books

Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy...

 in 2002. The second edition reorganized the contents, added two stories not included in the original edition or its component volumes, and was edited slightly to remove duplicative material.

The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart

Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period...

, in which King John

John of England

John , also known as John Lackland , was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death...

 never reigned and most of western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire

Angevin Empire

The term Angevin Empire is a modern term describing the collection of states once ruled by the Angevin Plantagenet dynasty.The Plantagenets ruled over an area stretching from the Pyrenees to Ireland during the 12th and early 13th centuries, located north of Moorish Iberia. This "empire" extended...

 whose continental possessions were never lost by that king. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in place of the science of our own world.

Contents of the first edition

• Murder and Magic
• "The Eyes Have It"
• "A Case of Identity"
• "The Muddle of the Woad"
• "A Stretch of the Imagination"
• Too Many Magicians
  Too Many Magicians
  Too Many Magicians is a novel by Randall Garrett, an American science fiction author. One of several stories starring Lord Darcy, it was first serialized in Analog Science Fiction in 1966 and published in book form the same year by Doubleday...
  
  
• Lord Darcy Investigates
• "A Matter of Gravity"
• "The Ipswich Phial"
• "The Sixteen Keys"
• "The Napoli Express"

Contents of the second edition

• "Preface" (Guy Gordon and Eric Flint
  Eric Flint
  Eric Flint is an American author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures.- Career :...
  
  )
• Part One:
  • "The Eyes Have It"
  • "A Case of Identity"
  • "The Muddle of the Woad"
  • Too Many Magicians
    Too Many Magicians
    Too Many Magicians is a novel by Randall Garrett, an American science fiction author. One of several stories starring Lord Darcy, it was first serialized in Analog Science Fiction in 1966 and published in book form the same year by Doubleday...
    
    
• Part Two:
  • "A Stretch of the Imagination"
  • "A Matter of Gravity"
  • "The Bitter End
    The Bitter End (short story)
    The Bitter End is a short story by Randall Garrett featuring his alternate history detective Lord Darcy and magician Master Sean. It was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and has been included in the second edition of the collection Lord Darcy.The Lord Darcy stories are set...
    
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• Part Three:
  • "The Ipswich Phial"
  • "The Sixteen Keys"
  • "The Napoli Express"
• Appendix:
  • "The Spell of War"