Something from the Nightside
core novel 2003 The Nightside / Secret Histories
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.78 (25,823 ratings, collected 2026-08-26) |
| Page count | 230 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441010653 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
This opening novel of the main Nightside sequence introduces John Taylor, a down-on-his-luck private investigator who works out of the Nightside, a hidden district at the secret heart of London where it is always three in the morning and gods, monsters, and every creature of myth and legend mingle freely with humanity. Taylor possesses an unusual talent for finding things, tangible or otherwise, a gift he has used to build a marginal detective practice after years of deliberately staying away from the district where he was born. When a wealthy woman hires him to find her missing teenage daughter, the search forces him back into the secretive, dangerous underworld he has spent so long avoiding, and into confrontations with the powers that rule it.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Nightside / Secret Histories
- Series: The Nightside main sequence core; position 1 of 12 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Simon R. Green
Notes
- From the series record (The Nightside main sequence): No further main-sequence novel has been found published since The Bride Wore Black Leather (2012); a short-story collection, Tales from the Nightside (2015), exists in the same setting but is not catalogued in this admission. No confirmed major-award nomination was found for this series after a genuine search; this is an honest "none found," not an unresolved lead.
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 The Nightside main sequence: position 1 of 12: next Agents of Light and Darkness (2003)
- Internal chronology, within The Nightside / Secret Histories: position 1 of 24: next The Man With the Golden Torc (2007)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Nightside (novel series)
- https://tantor.com/something-from-the-nightside-simon-r-green.html
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