The Gods Help Those: A Seventh Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger (Notebooks of Pliny the Younger, 7, Band 7) - Softcover

Bell Jr, Albert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564746089 ISBN 13: 9781564746085

Verlag: PERSEVERANCE PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Pliny the Younger hoped to improve relations with his unpleasant wife and her mother by investing in a warehouse on the Tiber with them. Now the building has collapsed due to heavy rains. Pliny discovers several dead people inside, including a man with a narrow red “equestrian” stripe on his tunic, indicating aristocracy. He wasn’t killed by the cave-in, however, but by a knife wound in his back. When Pliny gives the body a forensic examination, he finds two more puzzling things: a circumcision (unusual in Rome), and thirty pieces of silver in his sewn-closed mouth. To further complicate matters, Pliny’s servant and lover, Aurora, finds a live baby in the wreckage. What connection does the funeral of a consul have with these events? Queen Berenice of Judaea, the mistress of the late emperor Titus, soon enters the story with her sons—one of whom is an assassin, a member of the Sicarii. He’s determined to avenge the defeat of his people and the destruction of their temple—no matter who might get in the way....

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PERSEVERANCE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1564746089
• ISBN 13: 9781564746085
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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