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The Dragon Done It


Murderous Magic!

Crime never sleeps—even where magic reigns supreme. Fortunately, neither does transdimensional justice. Stories of fantastic detection with Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, David Drake, and Harry Turtledove heading up a stellar cast of tale-spinners edited by alternative history master Eric Flint and five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick!

"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative…and above all galactically grand.”
Los Angeles Times on The Dragon Done It editor Mike Resnick.

Cover Art by Bob Eggleton


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, March 2008

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The dragon done it / edited by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick.
       p. cm.
  A cross-genre collection of stories by popular writers.
  ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5528-5 (hc)
  ISBN-10: 1-4165-5528-5 (hc)
1. Detective and mystery stories, American. 2. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Flint, Eric. II. Resnick, Michael D.

PS648.D4D73 2008
813'.087208--dc22
                                                            2007051120 

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5528-5
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5528-5

Copyright© 2008 by Eric Flint & Mike Resnick

Introduction copyright © 2008 by Eric Flint & Mike Resnick. "The Long and Short of It" copyright © 2008 by Mike Resnick. "The Witch's Murder" copyright © 2008 by Dave Freer and Eric Flint. See also acknowledgements page for further copyright information.

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Copyright information for The Dragon Done It
This is the first publication of "The Long and the Short of It."

"Dead Wolf in a Hat" was first published in Realms of Fantasy, October 2005'

"This Town Ain't Big Enough" was first published in Vampire Slayers, ed. By M. Greenberg and E. A. Scarborough, Cumberland House 1995.

"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" was first published in Knave, 1984.

"The Whistling Room" was first published in The Idler, March 1910.

"Doppelgangster" was first published in Murder by Magic, ed. Rosemary Edghill, Warner Aspect 2004.

"Claus of Death" was first published in Slipstreams, ed. John Helfers and Martin Greenberg, DAW 2006.

"McNamara's Fish" was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1963.

"Gunsel and Gretel" was first published in The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 2001.

"Alimentary, My Dear Watson" was first published in Sherlock Holmes
in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg, DAW 1995.

"Fox Tails" was first published in Realms of Fantasy, June 2005.

"A Case of Identity" was first published in Analog, September 1964.

"The Case of the Skinflint's Specters" was first published in Christmas
Ghosts, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg, DAW 1993.

"The Black Bird" was first published in New Voices in Science Fiction, ed. Mike Resnick, DAW 2003.

"The Enchanted Bunny" was first published in The Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny, Baen Books 1990.

"The Adventure of the Pearly Gates" was first published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, ed. Mike Resnick and Martin Greenberg, DAW 1995.

"The Seventh Chapter" was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1997.

"The Detective of Dreams" was first published in Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking Press 1980.

This is the first publication of "The Witch's Murder."

 

Baen Books by Eric Flint

Ring of Fire series:

1632 by Eric Flint
1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber
1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint & David Weber
Ring of Fire ed. by Eric Flint
1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
1635: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce et al.
1635: The Cannon Law by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce
Grantville Gazette ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette II ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette III ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette IV ed. by Eric Flint
Ring of Fire II ed. by Eric Flint
 

Joe's World series:

The Philosophical Strangler
Forward the Mage (with Richard Roach)
 

Standalone titles:

Mother of Demons
Crown of Slaves (with David Weber)
The Course of Empire (with K.D. Wentworth)
Mountain Magic (with Ryk E. Spoor, David Drake & Henry Kuttner)

With Mercedes Lackey & Dave Freer:

The Shadow of the Lion This Rough Magic

With Dave Freer:

Rats, Bats & Vats The Rats, The Bats & The Ugly
 
Pyramid Scheme
 

With David Drake:

The Tyrant
 

The Belisarius Series with David Drake:

An Oblique Approach In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny's Shield Fortune's Stroke
The Tide of Victory
 

Edited by Eric Flint

The World Turned Upside Down (with David Drake & Jim Baen)
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe II
 

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