[Dragaera] left hand right hand in Iorich (Michele Riccio, et al)

[Philip Hart]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Thomas M. Coyle wrote:

> The earliest (publication order) reference to the Right Hand of the Jhereg
> is about halfway through Yendi, after Vlad is killed, Kragar is amazed that
> Vlad doesn't realize who the assassins were, and then Vlad ruminates about
> that for a few pages:
>
> "Both were women--and the Right Hand of the Jhereg has very few women.
> (There's Kiera the Thief, and maybe a few others, but they are a rarity.)"
>
> A quick search shows additional references to that term, "Right Hand of the
> Jhereg," in Phoenix and Dzur.
>
> So, Vlad establishes very early that there's a Right hand, termed as such.

Nice research, bummer about the interesting speculation.  Though there's 
still the out that the Texts were possibly narrated well after the events 
they describe.  But I doubt _Yendi_ was recorded after e.g. _Iorich_.