Scorpions in Corinth

Alvey, JM

ISBN 10: 1409180654 / ISBN 13: 9781409180654

Verlag: Orion, 2020

Great shape! Has a publisher remainder mark. paperback Used - Very Good 2020. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WH-9781409180654

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The Persian War is over and wealthy Athenians are looking to expand alliances overseas.

Popular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth, to promote goodwill between the two cities. But on arrival, their guide and fixer Eumelos drops dead - a victim of poison.

Philocles is convinced someone is out to sabotage the play, and to find out who - and why - he must first uncover the murderer.

But in Corinth the ruling oligarchs seem more interested in commerce than justice. And with the city's religious brotherhoods pursuing their own vicious rivalries, asking the wrong questions could get an outsider like Philocles killed . . .

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: J M Alvey studied Classics at Oxford in the 1980s. As an undergraduate, notable achievements in startling tutors included citing the comedic principles of Benny Hill in a paper on Aristophanes, and using military war-gaming rules to analyse and explain apparent contradictions in historic accounts of the Battle of Thermopylae. Crime fiction was always relaxation reading and that love of mysteries and thrillers continued through a subsequent, varied career, alongside an abiding fascination with history and the ancient world.

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Titel: Scorpions in Corinth
Verlag: Orion
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good