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A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett #foliosociety with a use of languageIn sequel to the Hugo award winning The Tainted Cup, an eccentric detective matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant bio punk fantasy mystery. An impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air vanishing from a building whose entrances and exits are all sealed. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, Ana Dolabra, and her bemused assistant Dinos Kol.