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  <name><![CDATA[Alan Gordon]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[<em>Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/44217-master-list-of-author-disambiguation-by-spaces">See this thread for more information.</a></em>  <br/><br/>Alan Gordon is the author of the Fools' Guild mysteries. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, The Drood Review of Mystery and the Medieval Academy Newsletter. He lives in New York City with his wife, Judy Downer, and son, Robert. By day, he is a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society.]]></about>
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    <![CDATA[Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (Sookie Stackhouse, #8.2; Kitty Norville, #2.2)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>The editors of <em>Many Bloody Returns</em> deliver the perfect howl-iday gift, with new tales from Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, and many more.</strong><br/><br/> <em>New York Times</em> bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Keri Arthur, and Carrie Vaughn—along with eleven other masters of the genre—offer all-new stories on werewolves and the holidays, a fresh variation on the concept that worked so well with birthdays and vampires in <em>Many Bloody Returns</em>.<br/><br/> The holidays can bring out the beast in anyone. They are particularly hard for lycanthropes. Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner have harvested the scariest, funniest and saddest werewolf tales by an outstanding pack of authors, best read by the light of a full moon with a silver bullet close at hand.<br/><br/> Whether wolfing down a holiday feast (use your imagination) or craving some hair of the dog on New Year’s morning, the werewolves in these frighteningly original stories will surprise, delight, amuse, and scare the pants off readers who love a little wolfsbane with their mistletoe.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Dana Cameron]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Thirteenth Night (Fools' Guild, #1)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In late December 1200 A.D. a merchant arrives at the tavern  near the Guildhall of the Fools' Guild with a message for one of the  jesters.  The message is brief: &quot;Orsino is dead.&quot;<p>  Fifteen years before, the jester, using the name of Feste, secretly  interceded on the Guild's behalf in a dynastic crisis in the Duchy of  Orsino, thus spoiling the plans of Saladin's agent, Malvolio.  These events,  recorded centuries later somewhat differently in Shakespeare's <em>Twelfth  Night</em>, led to Malovino's humiliation and his oath of revenge.  Now, with  the unexpected death of the Duke of Orsino, Feste suspects murder and sees  the hand of Malvolio behind it.<p>  With the backing of the Guild, Feste secretly returns to Orsino disguised as  a merchant, to find out what really happened to the Duke and to ferret out  Malvolio.  But fifteen years is a long time and Malvolio could be disguised  as anyone.  Only one thing is certain: Feste must uncover and foil the plot  before he is found out by Malvolio, who has been planning his revenge on  Feste for a very long time.</p></p>]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Alan Gordon]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>1999</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Jester Leaps In (Fools' Guild, #2)]]>
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    <![CDATA[It takes a fool to know a fool-or find one. So it befalls the member-in-good-standing of the Fool's Guild, Theophilos, to travel the Adriatic coast in the company of a duchess dressed as a man and acting the fool's apprentice. Their mission is to find out why six good fools have vanished in Constantinople. Amidst the whispers of spies, and the calumny of traitors, the plotting of assassins, and the ribaldry of dwarves, Constantinople is the gleaming center of a world brimming with war. Like all true fools, Theophilos seeks to bring sanity to this world. But with his beautiful wife-disguised as his apprentice-by his side, he cannot guess how Byzantine the danger is, or why, in a city that is the apple of the Crusader's eye, fools are the first to die....AUTHORBIO: ALAN GORDON is a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society. He is the author of one previous novel, Thirteenth Night, and several short stories, that have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, among others. He lives with his family in Queens, New York.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2000</published>
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    <![CDATA[A Death in the Venetian Quarter (Fools' Guild, #3)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople.Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city.The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant.But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.]]>
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    <text_reviews_count>155</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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    <![CDATA[An Antic Disposition (Fools' Guild, #5)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is on the run from an enraged Pope Innocent III and the Papal troops he's dispatched to destroy them.  Now, hidden in their secret enclave deep within the Black Forest, the fools, troubadours and novitiates, including the jester couple Theophilos and Claudia, come together for their evening gathering to hear Father Gerald, their ancient leader, tell one of the greatest stories from the history of the Guild.<br/><br/>It begins in Denmark, during a time of civil war when three men laid claim to the throne while a fourth watched and bided his time.  Into the strategically crucial town of Slesvig, the Guild sends Terence of York, who is promptly dubbed Yorick by the Duke's young son, Amleth.  What unfolds is a tale of treachery, tragedy and bloodshed that is the true story behind one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies.  But Father Gerald's history contains secrets never known to anyone outside the Guild, and as he recounts it, Theophilos feels a chill steal over his heart.  <br/><br/>For not even Father Gerald knows the ending of this story. But Theophilos does.<br/>]]>
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    <id>165198</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alan Gordon]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/165198.Alan_Gordon]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1190</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>155</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>0312354266</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780312354268</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[The Lark's Lament (Fools' Guild, #6)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the troubador Folquet, now a Cistercian abbot. But while they are at the abbey pleading their case, a gruesome murder takes place - a monk is killed in the librarium and a cryptic message written on the wall in his blood.  &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt; &lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;With everything on the line, Theophilos, his wife, and their apprentice go off in search of the meaning of the message, uncovering a long-ago series of events that will prove to be as deadly now as they were then.]]>
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    <id>165198</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alan Gordon]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/165198.Alan_Gordon]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>1190</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>155</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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        <book>
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  <isbn>0312300891</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780312300890</isbn13>
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    <![CDATA[Widow of Jerusalem (Fools' Guild, #4)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In 1191, as Richard the Lionhearted leads the forces of the Third Crusade in an attempt to recapture Jerusalem from the army of Saladin, Theophilos and Scarlett the Dwarf, his superior in the Guild of Fools, are quietly manipulating events. Their mission leads them to Tyre, where various factions are vying for power, despite the fact that the crown is too often fatal. First, Conrad is killed by an assassin, then his successor, Henry of Champagne, topples off a balcony-with Scarlett in tow. As Theophilos flees both the devastation of the Fourth Crusade and then Papal forces sent against the Guild itself, he turns again to the mysterious deaths from years ago to finally uncover the hand that was behind it all.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Moneylender of Toulouse (Fools' Guild, #7)]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In 1204 A.D., Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools&#8217; Guild, is sent to Toulouse with his jester wife, infant daughter and young apprentice with one simple mission &#8211; get the current Bishop to quietly retire so that the position can be filled with one more sympathetic to the Guild's goals. Arriving just before Christmas, they quickly learn that the Bishop is in some hot water with a man widely known as the local money lender. A man who, a day after pressing the Bishop particularly hard, is found floating face down in a tanner&#8217;s vat.   <br/> <br/>Now, with time running out for him to accomplish their mission and thus protect the Guild, Theophilos has but one option left: find out what actually happened the night that the Moneylender of Toulouse ended up so spectacularly dead.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Parisian Prodigal (Fool's Gold, #8)]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Alan Gordon]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2010</published>
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