This is the first Discworld book I ever read, when I think I was about 12 years old it came out in 1999, but I wouldn’t have read it straight away, and I turned 12 in late 2000. Urn:lcp:fifthelephant00terr:epub:7c2e1008-4f00-4ff5-aa55-b2a997c4db50 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fifthelephant00terr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bk47h3m Invoice 11 Isbn 0061020400ĩ780061020407 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition After all, solving mysteries is his jobĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:44:29 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1126606 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st U.S. It's up to the dauntless Vimes-bothered as usual by a familiar cast of Discworld inhabitants (you know, trolls, dwarfs, werewolves, vampires and such) to solve the puzzle of the missing pachyderm. An attempted assassination and a theft soon lead to a desperate chase from the low halls of Discworld royalty to the legendary fat mines of Uberwald, where lard is found in underground seams along with tusks and teeth and other precious ivory artifacts. Of course where cops (even those clad in tights) go, alas, crime follows.

The one role he relishes the other requires, well, ruby tights.

He's been 'invited' to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. So where is it? When duty calls, Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants.

So what happened to the fifth elephant? An investigation of an attempted assassination leads Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary on a wild goose-or rather, elephant-chase that will lead him to discover the truth about the missing pachyderm. But aren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there are. The flat world is supported on the backs of four elephants.

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 1999

The fifth elephant by terry pratchett