Eileen Battersby es una observadora perspicaz del panorama literario, experta en desentrañar los hilos que conectan a autores y géneros diversos. Su mirada crítica revela relaciones inesperadas entre obras aparentemente dispares, ofreciendo nuevas perspectivas sobre la historia literaria. Posee una habilidad única para iluminar la riqueza del mundo literario a través de su prosa reveladora. La escritura de Battersby se caracteriza por su agudo intelecto y su profunda apreciación por el arte del lenguaje.
Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying. It's up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd's not- dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.
Marius and his apprentice, Gerd are professionals - Professional corpse robbers that is. When they stumble upon the fallen King of Scorby on a blood soaked battlefield they get rather more than they bargained for, and Marius finds himself mistaken for the monarch after being rudely transported to the mysterious Kingdom of the Dead.