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I bought this from aardvark and I’ve never read it. It’s just been on my shelf. The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup. Wonderfully clever and compulsively readable.. another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection. --Publishers Weekly In the canton of Yarrowdale at the very edge of the Empire s reach a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air--vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower its door and windows locked from the inside. To solve the case the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective the great Ana Dolabra. At her side as always is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder--and one of surpassing cunning carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.