This short story collection contains six pieces: the three stories from The Translated Man and Other Stories ("The Hangman's Daughter," "Cresy and the Sharpsie," and "Elijah Beckett's Job") and the stories "The Locked Eye," "My Heinlein's Crumble...

The gray, icy city of Trowth is hollowed out by war, and now haunted by the degenerate spawn of a monstrous science. Only a drug-addicted detective and a young man with a gift for mathematics have the means to solve an enigmatic murder--a murder t...