Capture Murder On Ushers Planet Narrated By Atanielle Annyn Noel In Electronic Format

Noel's novel set in the OrielMossmarching Empire is an excursion into absurdity, crime, science fiction and thepanning legacy of Poe, At every turn in the plot, and the turns and switches are myriad, there is some obscure reference to fathom, some bizarre sight to make sense of, and twist of phrase to divine from context.
Earth is so far in the past that references and cultural survivals are muddled in the extreme, but Poe has managed to survive sort of and a member of the nobility has become so enamored of the ancient Earth writer that he builds a home emulating Poe's works complete with alien natives playing various parts further, he renames himself Lord Roderick Usher, and wills himself into the role of an enfeebled and nervous Poe protagonist he keeps a violin with him, not so he can play it but so he can decline because of his nerves should someone ask him to play.


On the eve of the Sharde Planet being accepted into the Empire an important parchment is purloined, The powersthatbe engage sleuths/spies/actors Gwen and Garamond Gray, experts in the "cloak amp blaster" trade, to get it back, The Grays, who are cousins of the kissing variety, enter a Byzantine world

of baroque and outre imagery, encountering along the way loyalists, pineconeheaded sentries,separatists, starcrossed lovers, artists with tails, poets, secret agents, space pirates, giant stuffed peetock birds, aliens who might have escaped from an asylum run by PG Wodehouse, ravens, and of course.
. . murder.

Murder on Usher's Planet is a stylish fever dream, a science fiction murder mystery dictated by an absintheguzzling green fairy.
Just when you think you have a handle on what's going on, a grim and ghastly raven hits you in the face and you struggle to keep up.
Antanielle presents us with a scope of vision that is almost too much to take in, but it is wonderfully fun to try.
Simultaneously a mystery, a space opera, a court comedy and an epic manners tale, the novel may not be for everyone, but if you like equal helpings of laughter and danger it might be for you.
Just as the planet of Shardé was about to join the Empire, a letter was stolena purloined piece of perilous purple prose that could wreak havoc in the known Universe if it fell into the wrong tentacles.


When Gwen and Garamond Gray, intergalactic sleuths, were retained to get it back, the trail led to the castle of the erratic admirer of an ancient Earth author named Poe.
A castle, like its inspiration, wondrously strange, . . and strangely murderous I keep trying to pin down the style: it seems to be a comedy of manners taking hints from Jack Vance's Gaean Reach series, or perhaps Gormenghast.


There are heavy Poe references, A character is a deep "Edgar Allen Poe" fanboy, with affectations of being Roderick Usher and his decrepit castle rooms decorated according to the stories.
Alsoand this took me a hundred pages to realizethe plot revolves around the problem of a hidden Purloined Letter, But I don't know if Poe informs the style, and that seems to be the critical thing for getting this book,

Otherwise, it's pleasant enough, The baroque and fanciful characters in a baroque and fanciful castle in a baroque and fanciful society wore a bit thin after a while.
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