Three Parts Dead
core novel 2012 The Craft Sequence
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.97 (15,632 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765333117 |
Synopsis
Three Parts Dead opens the Craft Sequence in the world of the Craft, a magic system built on contracts, debts, and binding law. Tara Abernathy is a student expelled from the Hidden Schools after exposing her professor Kelethres Albrecht Denovo for illegally stealing power from his students. Newly disgraced and with nowhere else to turn, she is hired by the senior Craftswoman Elayne Kevarian of the firm Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao. Together they travel to the city of Alt Coulumb, whose patron fire god Kos Everburning has died under mysterious circumstances, threatening the city's power supply and its faith. First published in 2012, Three Parts Dead belongs to the The Craft Sequence series.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Craft Sequence
- Series: The Craft Sequence core; position 1 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Max Gladstone
Notes
- From the series record (The Craft Sequence): The first six novels are each independently standalone within one shared world rather than a single strict reading order (the author's own note); the final three, marketed as 'The Craft Wars', form a direct continuation that does run forward in time book to book. All nine are treated as one Core Canon sequence per this project's usual practice for a single author's continuous secondary-world project.
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 Craft Sequence: position 1 of 9: next Two Serpents Rise (2013)
Sources
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