The deep caverns and hidden places of the Goblins house a world both strange and wonderful. It is a world where enchantments really do work, where cheap glamours for everyday use are commonplace, and black-market magics can be obtained easily enough if you have the right contacts in the right bars.

Of course, exporting such magics from the Lower Realms to the surface world of the humans is frowned upon in general terms and in practice policed with commendable efficiency. But the cops and customs officers are neither infallible nor incorruptible, and so it is not unheard-of for an occasional contraband glamour to make it through.

Magic on the loose inevitably causes trouble, mainly for the authorities who exist to deal with such matters: the problems that the people on the surface don't know how to handle. The mere existence of the demesnes of the Goblins is a closely-guarded secret and those in positions of responsibility do not wish that secret to become too widely known.

But if the smuggled magic is of a more private and personal nature, one where the police might be unsubtle or indiscreet, then assistance of a different kind is needed: in particular, the services of Private Investigator Findo Gask. For a merely nominal fee of twenty-five dollars a day, plus authorised expenses, PI Gask will track down and return your contraband magic. And, with luck, nobody will be any the wiser.

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Findo Gask - Deadly Enchantment is the eighth book in the Findo Gask sequence. The series currently comprises nine books, all in various stages of completion:

• Findo Gask - Goblin Detective: a revised and updated draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Backstreet Magics: five chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Underworld Investigations: four chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Graveyard Flatfoot: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Gumshoe Glamours: a complete draft is available for download or to read online.
• Findo Gask - Dragon Sleuth: eight chapters are now ready for review.
• Findo Gask - Moonlight Shamus: just a placeholder at present.
• Findo Gask - Deadly Enchantment: a draft of nineteen chapters is now available for review.
• Findo Gask - Sherlock Eclipse: a draft of thirteen chapters are now available for review.

A chapter-by-chapter summary for Deadly Enchantment is under construction. An index of characters for all books is available here.

Why not take a look at my Lyndesfarne Bridge series of novels: New Bridge to Lyndesfarne, Bridge at War, Death on the New Bridge and Bridge of Stone and Magic.

You may also like my collection of fifteen interlinked fantasy and science fiction short stories under the title Four Square Less One. Can you work out the connection between the stories?

I am now working on a second (and still growing) collection of short stories under the title ...Then a Miracle Occurs. An eclectic collection of science fiction, fantasy, horrow, romance and ghost stories - often more than one at a time. Includes my favourite short-short story Hearts and Flowers.

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