Miles, Mystery and Mayhem

MILES VORKOSIGAN TIMES THREE
EQUALS ENTERTAINMENT,
EXCITEMENT & EXCELLENCE

Diplomat, soldier, spy-Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayaran Empire, a.k.a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts.

Miles and his handsome cousin Ivan are called upon to play a simple diplomatic role on the capital world of Barrayar's old enemy until murder and deceit thrust them into Cetagandan internal politics at the highest levels, and Miles discovers the secrets of the haut-women's biological domain to be very complicated indeed.

Commander Elli Quinn, sent by Miles on the trail of those secrets, meets a man who marches to the beat of a very different drummer. Dr. Ethan Urquhart, obstretician from a planet forbidden to women, is on a quest at cross-purposes to Elli's mission - or is it?

Consequences of Cetagandan bioengineering continue to play out, this time on a Dendrii sortie to the crime planet of Jackson's Whole. When he encounters a genetically altered super-soldier, Miles's routine rescue strike takes a sudden hard turn for the unanticipated.

Publisher's Note: Miles, Mystery & Mayhem was previously published in parts as Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos, and "Labyrinth." This is the first unified edition.

Cover art by Patrick Turner
Interior map by Eleanor Kostyk

Hardcover
Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First omnibus, December 2001

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bujold, Lois McMaster.

Miles, mystery & mayhem / by Lois McMaster Bujold.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.
Contents: Cetaganda — Ethan of Athos — Labyrinth
ISBN 0-671-31858-6
1. Vorkosigan, Miles (Ficticious character)—Fiction. 2. Science fiction, American.
I. Title: Miles, mystery, and mayhem. II. Title.

PS3552.U397 A6 2001
813'.54—dc21 2001043348

ISBN: 0-671-31858-6

Cetaganda copyright © 1996; Ethan of Athos copyright © 1986; "Labyrinth" copyright © 1989; "Author's Afterword" copyright © 2001; all by Lois McMaster Bujold.

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The Vorkosigan Saga:

Cordelia's Honor
The Warrior's Apprentice
The Vor Game
Young Miles
Cetaganda
Miles, Mystery & Mayhem
Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity
Ethan of Athos
Falling Free
The Spirit Ring