- It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn"t sure he"ll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.