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y separately published work icon The Crooked Letter single work   novel   crime   fantasy  
Is part of Books of the Cataclysm Sean Williams , 2004 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 The Crooked Letter
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'When mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo travel to Europe on holidays, they don’t expect the end of the world to follow them. Seth’s murder, however, puts exactly that into motion.

'From opposite sides of death, the Castillo twins grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia. The Earth we know is just one of many "realms", three of which are inhabited by humans during various stages of their lives. And their afterlives...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Nick Linke, in honour of all the insight, patience, small betrayals, and great love that characterise an enduring friendship. And the fetta pears.
  • Dedication: To Kim Selling, for reacquainting me with magic.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Voyager , 2004 .
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      Extent: 627p.
      Note/s:
      • Author's note: ...The Crooked Letter began life in early 1991 as two unpublished and unrelated novellas, 'Soul Pollution' and 'Signs of Death' ... Readers of The Books of the Change (The Stone Mage and the Sea; The Sky Warden & The Sun; The Storm Weaver & the Sand), first published by HarperCollins Australia in 2001-02, will recognise much from these books in this one. The Crooked Letter is in fact a prequel to that trilogy. It also stands as the first volume of the Books of the Cataclysm, ... Sean Williams Adelaide/Sydney, 2004.(pp.625-627).
      • Includes three appendices: Names, Hierarchies and Definitions.
      ISBN: 0732279259 (pbk.)
      Series: Number in series: 1
    • Amherst, New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Pyr ,
      2006 .
      Extent: 508p.
      ISBN: 1591024382 (hbk.)
Alternative title: Die Spiegelzwillinge
Language: German
    • c
      Austria,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Otherworld ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: 575p.p.
      ISBN: 9783800095070, 3800095076

Works about this Work

Fantasy Novels Colin Steele , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 17 October 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of The Crooked Letter Sean Williams , 2004 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2004; (p. 12)

— Review of The Crooked Letter Sean Williams , 2004 single work novel ; Golden Pavilions : A Novel Robert Brunton , 2004 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 August 2004; (p. 12)

— Review of The Crooked Letter Sean Williams , 2004 single work novel ; Golden Pavilions : A Novel Robert Brunton , 2004 single work novel
Fantasy Novels Colin Steele , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 17 October 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of The Crooked Letter Sean Williams , 2004 single work novel
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