Maskerade
core novel 1995 Discworld
Record
| First published | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (70,850 ratings, collected 2026-09-11) |
| Page count | 358 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780575058088 |
Synopsis
Agnes Nitt leaves her home village of Lancre to chase a career on the operatic stage in Ankh-Morpork, while witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg travel to the same city to collect royalties owed on Nanny's popular cookbook and to recruit Agnes as the third member of their coven. At the city's Opera House, recently bought by a former cheesemonger with no experience in the business, Agnes joins the chorus alongside a less talented but far more favored singer named Christine. The Opera House's resident ghost, long a harmless fixture of the building, suddenly begins staging a series of murders disguised as accidents while insisting that Christine be given the lead roles, even though it is really Agnes's hidden vocal talent that makes the performances shine.
Where it sits
- Universe: Discworld
- Series: Witches core; position 5 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Terry Pratchett
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Witches: position 5 of 6: previous Lords and Ladies (1992) · next Carpe Jugulum (1998)
Sources
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