However, Conan was arrested after he became intoxicated and a prostitute turned him in. Prior to the story's beginning, Conan kills a corrupt priest of Anu, who was both a fence and police informer.
After he is delivered a threat by Nabonidus (the ear of a corrupt secretary that worked with Murilo), Murilo learns of Conan's reputation as a mercenary and turns to him for help.
The story begins in an unnamed city-state between Zamora and Corinthia during a power struggle between two powerful leaders: Murilo, an aristocrat, and Nabonidus the "Red Priest", a clergyman with a strong power base. It features a fight between Conan and an intelligent ape-like hominid. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the struggle between two powerful men fighting for control of a city-state. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. " Rogues in the House" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. For the collection of the same name that contains this story, see Rogues in the House (collection).
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