 It was later gathered together with "Murder and Magic" (1979) and "Too Many Magicians" into the omnibus collection "Lord Darcy" (1983, expanded 2002).The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazines "Analog Science Fact & Fiction" in October 1974 and December 1976, and June 1965, "Fantastic" in May 1976, "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" in April 1979.The Lord Darcy stories are set in an alternate world whose history supposedly diverged from our own during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, in which King John never reigned and most of Western Europe and the Americas are united in an Angevin Empire whose continental possessions were never lost by that king.