Making Money (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Moist von Lipwig: Former conman turned honest to prevent being hanged again.
• Adora Belle Dearheart: Moist's fiancée.
• Lord Havelock Vetinari: The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork.
• Mr. Bent: Chief cashier of the Royal Bank. He has a Past.
• Mrs. Lavish: Previous chairman and manager of the Ankh-Morpork Royal Bank.
• Cosmo Lavish: A hobby madman with a Vetenari-obsession.
• Pucci Lavish: Self-obsessed twin-sister of Cosmo Lavish.
• Heretofore: Secretary to Cosmo Lavish
• Cranberry: Assassin.
• Mr. Fusspot: A dog who is the chairman of the bank.
• Hubert: Nephew to Mrs Lavish.
• Igor: Servant of Hubert.
• Gladys: A golem who became female.
• Drumknott: Personal secretary to Lord Vetinari.
• Cribbins: Add a description of this character.
• Dr. Hicks: Doctor of Post-Mortem Communications (not Necromancy at all).
• Professor Flead: Dead 300 years.
• Harry King
• Mrs. Cake
• Mr. Slant: Ankh-Morpork's best and oldest lawyer.
• Stanley: Head of Stamps at the Post Office.
• Vimes: Commander of the Watch.
• Owlswick Jenkins: Forger.
• Sacharissa: Journalist of the Ankh-Morpork Times.
• Peggy
• Mr. Shady
• Josephine Lavish
• Joshua
• Aimsbury
• Angua
• Ms. Houser
• Mr. Spools
• Bellyster
• Ludmilla
• Nobby Nobbs
• Mr. Dibbler
• Wallace
• Downey

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• “The Royal Bank of Ankh Morpork was the ugliest building NOT to have won any architectural awards.”

  Narrator

• “Shame, Ignominy and Mr Fusspot (the dog) were staring him in the face, but only of them was licking it.”

  Moist Von Lipwig

• “Mr Lipwig, do I need a badge that says tyrant?”

  Vetinari

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• The price of a good woman was proverbially above rubies, so a skillfully bad one was worth presumably a lot more.

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• Students, eh? Love ’em or hate ’em, you’re not allowed to hit ’em with a shovel.

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• Igor beamed. At last. All this politeness had been getting on his nerves. What an Igor expected was insane orders. That was what an Igor was born (and, to some extent, made) for. A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!

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• “That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way,” said Ponder.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Ankh-Morpork

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Wintersmith, and followed by Unseen Academicals.

Preceded by Going Postal.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Terry Pratchett (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Locus Fantasy Award (2008: Best Fantasy Novel)
• Nebula (Finalist, 2008: Best Novel)

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• Dewey: 823.914

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Authors, A-Z › ( P ) › Pratchett, Terry
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Series › Discworld
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Single Women
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Comic
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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