Description: "Breathless pace and ingenious plotting." -- The New York Times Book Review "The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are all interdependent--and all wonderful." -- San Francisco Chronicle "The master of classic locked-room mysteries switches to historical adventure in this timeslip fantasy.... This full-blooded Restoration melodrama is great fun." -- Fantasy & Science Fiction "A master magician ... The king of the art of misdirection." --Agatha Christie "Mr. Carr can lead us away from the small, artificial world of the ordinary detective plot into the menace of outer darkness.... Every sentence gives a thrill of positive pleasure." --Dorothy L. Sayers

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