Title Character
Lord Darcy is the Chief Forensic Investigator for the Duke of Normandy, and sometime Special Investigator for the High Court of Chivalry. His full name is never given; he is always referred to by his title as the Lord of Arcy (i.e., Lord d'Arcy or Lord Darcy), even by his friends. We are told that he speaks Anglo-French with an English accent, and that he dresses in the style of an English aristocrat. He thinks of himself as English and yet Arcy seems to be a French place name.
Darcy is described in The Spell of War as an 18-year-old lieutenant in the autumn of the War of '39, so he was born in 1921 or late 1920, and he is in his early forties when we first encounter him as a detective.
How he comes to be addressed as a "Lord" is never explained, though he seems deferential when dealing with other Peers such as Dukes, Counts, and a Marquis. In Too Many Magicians Darcy is said to be a cousin of the Marquis of London.
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