The Casebook of Elisha Grey series of eight volumes, three novellas each, are to the credit of Kiara Ptolmai, Atlantean diplomat’s daughter who finds herself sharing a flat with Elisha Grey, scholar and teacher at the Temple of Learning – and a consulting detective who is happy to have an assistant.
Casebook is the result of Kiara Ptolmai’s recording and publishing Elisha Grey’s work in the local papers, The Sun and The Bee. His work becomes noticed by the general public, by private citizens, and by the criminal element – especially the arch-criminal businessman Samax Rex Pahadron, who will test the duo on several occasions, with dire results.
Unlike other Atlanteans, Elisha Grey is open to working with and trusting the underclass of multimorphs – human/animal hybrids originally created for medical research, many of whom are skilled at various trades, which put them in proximity of places where crimes occur.
As Kiara Ptolmai – who never lived in Atlantis as a child, as her father was Ambassador to Chungkuo after being stationed in the Caucasus where he met her mother and she was born – navigates Atlantis, the most technologically advanced civilization of its time, she discovers that the social ethics and mores are not only different than what she was raised to expect, but during her first year of jurisprudence studies at the Temple of Learning, also discovers the shifting sands upon which the legal ethics are built.
From the theft of a needed drug formula which leads to the discovery that extraterrestrials have been visiting the continent, to multiple murders involving a polyamorous architect, to meeting an aloof artist who can change the weather with the power of his mind, Elisha Grey and Kiara Ptolmai pursue the solutions to the mysteries at hand – no matter how far they need to go.
Casebook is the result of Kiara Ptolmai’s recording and publishing Elisha Grey’s work in the local papers, The Sun and The Bee. His work becomes noticed by the general public, by private citizens, and by the criminal element – especially the arch-criminal businessman Samax Rex Pahadron, who will test the duo on several occasions, with dire results.
Unlike other Atlanteans, Elisha Grey is open to working with and trusting the underclass of multimorphs – human/animal hybrids originally created for medical research, many of whom are skilled at various trades, which put them in proximity of places where crimes occur.
As Kiara Ptolmai – who never lived in Atlantis as a child, as her father was Ambassador to Chungkuo after being stationed in the Caucasus where he met her mother and she was born – navigates Atlantis, the most technologically advanced civilization of its time, she discovers that the social ethics and mores are not only different than what she was raised to expect, but during her first year of jurisprudence studies at the Temple of Learning, also discovers the shifting sands upon which the legal ethics are built.
From the theft of a needed drug formula which leads to the discovery that extraterrestrials have been visiting the continent, to multiple murders involving a polyamorous architect, to meeting an aloof artist who can change the weather with the power of his mind, Elisha Grey and Kiara Ptolmai pursue the solutions to the mysteries at hand – no matter how far they need to go.