Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels: Fifth Business , often described as Robertson Davies' finest novel; The Manticore , and World of Wonders . Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, The Deptford Trilogy provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where 'the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished.
