 It was later gathered together with "Too Many Magicians" (1967) and "Lord Darcy Investigates" (1981) into the omnibus collection "Lord Darcy" (1983, expanded 2002).The book collects four Lord Darcy short stories originally published in the magazine "Analog Science Fact & Fiction" in January 1964, November 1964, and June 1965, and the Dean W. Dickensheet edited anthology "Men & Malice", (Doubleday, 1973).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.