The Serpent’s Shadow
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Mercedes Lackey returns to form in The Serpent’s Shadow, the fourth in her sequence of reimagined fairy tales. This story takes place in the London of 1909, and is based on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Lackey creates echoes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, pays affectionate homage to Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey (who plays an important role under a thin disguise), an….Read More
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