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He Walked Around the Horses

H. Beam Piper

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Austrian surrender made necessary my return to London. I left Vienna on the morning of Monday, the 20th, to go to Hamburg to take ship home; I was traveling in my own coach-and-four, with my secretary, Mr. Bertram Jardine, and my valet, William Small, both British subjects, and a coachman, Josef Bidek, an Austrian subject, whom I had hired for the trip. Because of the presence of French troops, whom I was anxious to avoid, I was forced to make a detour west as far as Salzburg before turning north toward Magdeburg, where I crossed the Elbe. I was unable to get a change of horses for my coach after leaving Gera, until I reached Perleburg, where I stopped at the Sword & Scepter Inn.

Arriving there, I left my coach in the inn yard, and I and my secretary, Mr. Jardine, went into the inn. A man, not this fellow here, but another rogue, with more beard and less paunch, and more shabbily dressed, but as like him as though he were his brother, represent. . . Read More

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3.00
- Alex - Mar 25, 2023

Прикольная структура повествования склеенная из писем и докладных записок, прикольные отсылки к реальным историческим персонажам и идеальная длина. Такой Assassin's Creed из 40х.
Ну и за маршрут главного героя из Вены в Гамбург -- плюсик.

3.00
- Ralph - Jan 29, 2012

I enjoyed listening to this tale told in an epistolary style. The story seem to reflect a realistic description of the reports that would follow an event of this nature.
The narrators voice is clear and easy to listen to. She is a good story teller, with experience. She has participated in 14 works

4.00
- Mary - Jun 10, 2015

an intriguing little tale hypothesizing a solution to a historical mystery about a disappearance and having some fun with alternate history.

Note: the mystery it "solves" is somewhat less mysterious than it would appear, since the description given in the tale understates the time between when he was

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