He can transform into a huge snake, with his own face on the serpent's head. Monday is described as being a tall man with blond hair and circles under his eyes. Dame Primus sets sorcerers to work, searching for assassins, while she herself was Monday's murderer. In Sir Thursday, it is revealed that he was assassinated and it was suspected to be Superior Saturday 's men. Subsequently, Monday accepted Arthur as his master, thanking him for his new life. When Arthur reached Monday's Dayroom, a great battle was fought between the two, but Arthur wins the First Key, and uses it to heal Monday of his Sloth. Monday's sloth left him mostly incapacitated, whereupon he left most of the affairs of the Lower House to his Dawn, Noon, and Dusk. Monday's command center is Monday's Day room. The two hands, when combined, take the form of a sword. His Key can be split into two halves an Hour Hand (Hour Key) and a Minute Hand. Mister Monday was granted control of the Lower House. When Arthur first meets him, he was being pushed by Sneezer, his butler. It is in this house that Arthur must unravel the secrets of the key and discover his true fate.Mister Monday is the first book in The Keys to the Kingdom series.Garth Nix is the best-selling author of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen.Lord Monday was the first Trustee Arthur met and was always pushed around in a wheelchair by one of his servants. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.Desperate, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house a house that only he can see. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm.
But then he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock.Arthur is safe but his world is not. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. First, a brief, cryptic prelude tells of 'the Will' that has been kept under cosmic lock-and-key by generations of Inspectors and their robotic sentries. Moving between our familiar world and bizarre other realms where nothing is predictable, Nix delivers a thrilling adventure-fantasy of breathtaking scope and ingenuity.Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. In this first volume in Nix's (Sabriel) Mister Monday series, magic splashes across virtually every page. Book one in a blockbuster series, The Keys to the Kingdom, by the internationally acclaimed Garth Nix.
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