Tales of Dunk and Egg · Book 3

The Mystery Knight

by George R. R. Martin

Published
16 March 2010
Pages
192
ISBN-13
9782756411149
Type
novella

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Cover of The Mystery Knight

About this book

First published in the anthology Warriors in 2010, The Mystery Knight is the longest of the three novellas at 192 pages and closes out the published Dunk and Egg stories, arriving seven years after The Sworn Sword.

Its place in Tales of Dunk and Egg

The Mystery Knight is book 3 in the Tales of Dunk and Egg series. It follows The Sworn Sword. See the full Tales of Dunk and Egg reading order.

Ninety years before Robert Baratheon's rebellion, a huge, penniless, barely literate hedge knight called Dunk takes on a diminutive, cheerfully secretive squire named Egg, and the two of them wander the Seven Kingdoms getting into exactly the kind of trouble a good-hearted, thick-skulled knight-errant and a boy hiding a spectacular secret tend to attract. That secret — Egg is actually Aegon Targaryen, a prince of the royal house travelling incognito — gives George R. R. Martin room to tell smaller, warmer stories…

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