Old Tin Sorrows
core novel 1989 Garrett P.I.
Record
| First published | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.15 (3,034 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 256 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451160133 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Old Tin Sorrows, the fourth Garrett P.I. novel, again follows Garrett, an ex-marine private investigator who survived Karenta's long generational war with the rival kingdom Venageta before turning to freelance detective work in TunFaire. By this point in the series Garrett has grown more established, with a proper household including his housekeeper Dean and closer ties to the city's underworld and law-enforcement contacts, while still relying on the Dead Man, a telepathic and telekinetic Loghyr corpse, for deductive help, and on his half-elf friend Morley Dotes for muscle and inside knowledge. The book sends Garrett moving between TunFaire's upper crust and its criminal underbelly on a new case, weaving hardboiled detective conventions with the city's magical population and its climate of crime, corruption and general lawlessness as Garrett works to get to the truth behind the assignment.
Where it sits
- Universe: Garrett P.I.
- Series: Garrett P.I. core; position 4 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Glen Cook
Notes
- From the series record (Garrett P.I.): Core Canon = the 14-novel main sequence. Fourteen books were originally published one at a time from 1987 to 2013; omnibus reissues of groups of three exist but add no new content and are not catalogued separately.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Garrett P.I.: position 4 of 14: previous Cold Copper Tears (1988) · next Dread Brass Shadows (1990)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Garrett P.I.
- OrderOfBooks.com: Garrett P.I.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tin_Sorrows
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