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Title: All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger by Albert A. Bell Jr., William Martin Johnson ISBN: 0-9713045-3-X Publisher: High Country Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: All Roads Lead To Murder
Comment: Who doesn't love a great mystery? I know that I do. The reason I love this book is that it is suspenseful and gripping. I was immediately drawn into the plot and the details that the author describes in the book. Not only is it a great mystery but it provides Roman history for its reader as well. It gives us a look into the Roman citizen and his life.
Rating: 5
Summary: great new Roman mystery
Comment: If a writer wants to introduce a new series in the somewhat crowded field of Roman mysteries, he'd better have a unique twist. Albert Bell has done that. Instead of fictional sleuths, he uses historical characters, Pliny the Younger and the historian Tacitus, in the first of what promises to be a fine series. Bell combines historical knowledge, witty writing, and a plot with just enough complications and suspects to lead to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. Pliny and Tacitus have to find out who murdered a man travelling with them while also protecting a beautiful young slave girl who may be the killer's next victim. I can't wait for the next one!
Rating: 5
Summary: a fresh take on Roman mysteries
Comment: The field of mysteries set in ancient Rome is a bit crowded, with Davis, Saylor, and Roberts, but this new entry deserves to take its place at the head of the line. It features an historical character, Pliny the Younger, with his friend the historian Tacitus playing the Dr. Watson role. While traveling back to Rome in a caravan in 83 AD, they stop overnight in Smyrna. The next morning they discover that a member of the caravan has been brutally murdered. Suspects abound: a gambler who was in debt to the victim, a group of women who may be involved in occult practices, an abused slave, and several others. With no Roman magistrates on the scene, Pliny takes charge of the investigation. He soon realizes that the case is more complicated than at first appears. He must find the killer because he himself may have been the intended victim. First rate!
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Title: The River God's Vengeance (Decius Metellus, 8) by John Maddox Roberts ISBN: 0312323190 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Judgment of Caesar by Steven Saylor ISBN: 0312271190 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ovid: A Marcus Corvinus Mystery (Marcus Corvinus Mysteries) by David Wishart ISBN: 0340646837 Publisher: New English Library Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Germanicus: A Marcus Corvinus Mystery (Marcus Corvinus Mysteries) by David Wishart ISBN: 0340825316 Publisher: New English Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits by Mike Ashley ISBN: 0786712414 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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