For a Lankhmar book, The Knight and Knave of Swords is quite a weighty tome. Fahrd begins by learning to get along without a left hand, a problem yet again caused by those annoying god types. Hanging around leisurely should be peaceful, shouldn't it? Not when they have two women around, and others that would like a little payback coming.

Knight and Knave of Swords : 01 Sea Magic - Fritz Leiber
Knight and Knave of Swords : 02 The Mer She - Fritz Leiber
Knight and Knave of Swords : 03 The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars - Fritz Leiber
Knight and Knave of Swords : 04 The Mouser Goes Below - Fritz Leiber

Arrows magical and mundane, with a nasty fish woman on the end of one.

3 out of 5

Stowaway sea demon.

3 out of 5

Archimages decided they need their hero helpers back home, despite a couple of personal Death obstacles.

3.5 out of 5

Godly disagreement, unexpected underneath adventures, a fair bit of girl-on-girl action, and in the case of Sister Pain, running-away-from-girl action.

3.5 out of 5

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Volume 7 of Lieber's classic sword and sorcery series. ( )

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The final volume of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series finds our heroes in semi-respectable retirement. You knew that couldn’t last!

This is the Knight and Knave of Swords, with a different name. The final adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser are to be found here, rebadged in a different edition. Fahrd begins by learning to get along without a left hand, a problem yet again caused by those annoying god types. Hanging around leisurely should be peaceful, shouldn't it? Not when they have two women around, and others that would like a little payback coming.

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This book sadly marks the decline of Leiber's talent towards the end of his life. The stories take place after the events of Swords and Ice Magic where Fafhrd and the Mouser are stuck on the other side of the world from Lankhmar. As with most of the other books, it is a collection of stories rather than a novel, and at least one of the stories is simply a rewrite of an earlier one.

For completists only. The rest of us should pretend it ends before this book. ( )