The Case of the Carbon Clawmark: An Inspector Lorkin Adventure
"the thing was this, sir," mister pawsley said, "i had wanted to make a pretty penny from the blackmail, and i knew lord leffrinson pretty well from when he'd been slumming in my neighborhood.
Chronicles of Silverhoof - General info
Guardian forest: tigg's home milden: a run down slum of a town, slavery of beasts and creatures of all sizes and species is big trade here. portas forest: this is where magnar cottage and taklit's stable are.
TR:D Chapter 2
The fury the guard held was shown through his actions as he was made a fool in the slums as each slash, stab, and thrust cut through the rain.
Soul Makossa- Part One
These thoughts entered his mind as he left the bus and went home to his apartment, a small cramped house which was somewhat larger than the mud huts near the slum but much smaller than the suburban-style houses in yaounde's better neighborhoods where
The Storm Wolf: Gathering Clouds - chapter 7 Lovers - 7.2
"when you grow up in the slums, you learn to seize opportunities." a sharp, jolting sting in my psychic senses was as painful as a blade slicing through skin.
The Gladiator, Chapter 1
Kayo asked, voice crackling with hope long since forgotten in the misty opium-flooded air of the slums. "a few. seven, maybe?" seven, a lucky number in two ways. this conversation could wait.
It sets my mind to wander...
I walked purposefully through the slums -- through stacks of desolate tenements from which no sound could be heard, and in whose windows no light could be distinguished.
Darkness and Starlight 10 - A Town of Thieves
A stark difference from the middle road of slum-laden rogueport, the west side was somewhat more well-built with wealth.
Venusian Blues
It was hard to find any worthwhile scrap, back home in the slums of venus. it took him about five solar revolutions just to get the venusian blue built. even with access to his ma’s junkyard, it was hard to find anything worthwhile.
Brother Light, Brother Dark: In Which a Royal Entrance is Made
Jaqaran figured such was the cause for the large crowd; he realized that unlike the slums that he was used to, neither he nor donichus had been approached by a beggar since entering the city.
Eudaemon II: Dragon and Colossus, Part 6
But one day, mika had stopped in as she was begging on her usual apple villa street corner, and told her about a place called "exile village," back in the comfort town slums.
The Search for Ka'Le (2/15)
Just as they were about to go back to the library once more; however, they received a message from the warlock to meet them down in the slums near the city gates.