| Lord Darcy | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Eyes Have It |
| Last appearance | A Study in Sorcery (written by Michael Kurland) |
| Created by | Randall Garrett |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Forensic investigator |
| Nationality | English |
Lord Darcy is a detective in a fantasy alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. The first stories were asserted to take place in the same year as they were published, but in a world with an alternate history that is different from the real world and that is governed by the rules of magic rather than the rules of physics. Despite the magical trappings, the Lord Darcy stories play fair as whodunnits; magic is never used to "cheat" a solution, and indeed, the mundane explanation is often obscured by the leap to assume a magical cause.