The golems expressly build Meshugeh to be King over them, and load his head with so many conflicting and mutually opposed chems that he goes psychotic. 'It's the actual bread he personally wielded at the Battle of Koom Valley, killing fifty*seven trolls' - one of the frequent 57 references in TP's work. Smite-the-Unbeliever-with-Cunning-Arguments.Shmata, golem, worker at a tailor in Peach Pie Street.Hughnon Ridcully, Chief Priest of Blind Io.Edward St John de Nobbes - The Last Earl of Ankh.Klutz, golem, worker at the pickle factory.Gimlet Gimlet, owner of Gimlet's Hole Food Delicatessen.

Bobkes, golem, worker at the coal merchant.Constable Visit-the-Infidel-with-Explanatory-Pamphlets, City Watch.Igneous, a troll who owns a pottery shop.Hopkinson, curator of the Dwarf Bread Museum.The Death of Rats and Wee Mad Arthur are collecting dead rats. The watchmen on the Right are Detritus, Angua and Cheery/Cheri. Josh Kirby's cover features a golem emerging through the fog with a cleaver in his hand. It may be in amongst the words in the head. In the gloom of the night, Watch Commander Sir Samuel Vimes finds that the truth might not be out there at all. Who can you trust when there are mobs on the streets and plotters in the dark and all the clues point the wrong way? Corporal Nobbs is hobnobbing with the nobs, and there's something really strange about the new dwarf recruit, especially his earrings and eyeshadow. There's a werewolf suffering from Pre-Lunar Tension. It's not as if the Watch hasn't got problems of its own. Maybe the golems know something - but the solemn men of clay, who work all day and night and are never any trouble to anyone, have started to commit suicide. Who's murdering harmless old men? Who's poisoning the Patrician?Īs autumn fogs hold Ankh-Morpork in their grip, the City Watch have to track down a murderer who can't be seen.

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