The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett Limited Edition (Subterranean Press)

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Please Note: if you already ordered directly from the publisher or another retailer, please do not cancel your order to order here instead. Doing so hurts the other seller because they re out the processing fees and it creates extra work for them. Thank you! PUBLISHER: Subterranean Press PRICE: $225 Dust Jacket and Interior Illustrations by Tom Roberts About the Book Dinios Kol, assistant to Investigator Ana Dolabra, visits a very fine mansion, belonging to an extremely wealthy and powerful family. He was sent there because a death had occurred. And not just any death, but one that sounds impossible: a tree has spontaneously grown from the dead man. Din is an engraver, someone biologically altered to remember perfectly everything that he experiences and recall this data at any time. Ana, the investigator he serves, is one of the more unusual fictional detectives you might have the good fortune to encounter. Among her other idiosyncrasies, she often wears a red blindfold, so as not to be overwhelmed by her senses. For similar reasons, she only rarely leaves her house, relying on Din’s altered abilities to provide her with necessary evidence. She has recently been appointed to the Outer Rim of the Empire, and she is catastrophically bored. But a death is an excellent cure for boredom. Ana quickly determines that the engineer’s death was not a strange and horrible accident, but rather a very deliberate murder. And then a leviathan, having made its way up from the depths, breache

• Binding: Hardcover

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