Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)

Terry Pratchett
Corgi • 2005

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can't blame a sword if someone th...rust it at you, sir.'For members of the City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by periods of torpid inactivity. Now is one such troubling time. People are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene. Is there ever a circumstance in which you can blame the weapon not the murderer? Such philosophical questions are not the usual domain of the city's police, but they're going to have to start learning fast...
Viac

Sú knihy, ktoré vás vtiahnu do deja tak prudko a pevne, že ich neodložíte, až kým neprevrátite poslednú stranu. Dajú sa nájsť aj také, ktoré čítate pomaly, aby ste si čo najviac vychutnali autorov originálny štýl. A potom sú tu diela z pera Terryho Pratchetta. Nie nadarmo sa jeho séria Úžasná Plochozem považuje za kultovú. Redefinovala žáner fantasy, posunula ju na novú úroveň a inšpirovala[...]

'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can't blame a sword if someone thrust it at you, sir.'

For members of the City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together by periods of torpid inactivity. Now is one such troubling time. People are being murdered, but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene. Is there ever a circumstance in which you can blame the weapon not the murderer? Such philosophical questions are not the usual domain of the city's police, but they're going to have to start learning fast...