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In a slightly alternate London in 1983 Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her but Susan doesnt get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of tIn a slightly alternate London in 1983 Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her but Susan doesnt get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin.Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones). With the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones) he belongs to an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world in addition to running several bookshops.Susans search for her father begins with her mothers possibly misremembered or misspelled surnames a reading-room ticket and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.Merlin has a quest of his own: to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister a right-handed bookseller named Vivien tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past they find their quest strangely overlaps with Susans. Who or what was her father? Susan Merlin and Vivien must find out as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New.(less)