Ten Little Wizards
cover art from first edition | |
| Author | Michael Kurland |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | James Warhola |
| Language | English |
| Series | Lord Darcy series |
| Genre | Fantasy, Science fiction, Alternate history |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 188 p. |
| ISBN | 0-441-80057-2 |
| OCLC | 17729826 |
| Preceded by | Lord Darcy Investigates |
| Followed by | A Study in Sorcery |
Ten Little Wizards is a novel by Michael Kurland featuring Randall Garrett's alternate history detective Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in March 1988; a trade paperback edition and ebook edition were issued by the Borgo Press imprint of Wildside Press in 2011. An audio-book version was published by Audible Studios in April 2015. The book has been translated into Italian.
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. In this world a magic-based technology has developed in place of the science of our own world.
The title is an allusion to Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers, also published as Ten Little Indians, a classic of detective literature which is now almost always referred to by its US title, And Then There Were None.