A short story by Tamsyn Muir that takes place prior to the events in her The Locked Tomb Trilogy.
"Each of the Empire’s houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the Sixth, every secret is a mystery, and every mystery is a puzzle to be solved or a paper to be published. Deep in the bowels of their house, one such secret is about to reveal itself. The study of the famed academic Donald Sex, sealed since the moment of his death, is about to open, and archivists are ready to dissect what he left behind. They are not ready for the macabre surprise that awaits them.
Enter Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect, age thirteen." --source: Tor.com
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why are they cousins. why did you make them 2nd cousins when they could NOT BE RELATED IN THE FIRST PLACE, Tamsyn? I have several questions
Kid Palamedes and Camilla locked room mystery fun times in like 50 pages what's there not to love about this one.
It’s a lovely locked room mystery featuring the sixth house heroes and an insight into the stories that feed into Gideon the ninth.
I think I read this out of order, but it was good fun even so.
A nice little mystery with Pal in full on Sherlock mode. Fleshes out the sixth house a bit and contains some awful puns, so pretty much what you would expect.
Short & sweet, a cute little mystery quickly solved. One sex joke.
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