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The Pericles Commission
Gary Corby
Minotaur Books
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Featuring: Nicolaos; Pericles
304 pages
ISBN: 0312599021
EAN: 9780312599027
Hardcover
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Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Historical
Early one bright, clear morning in Athens, 461 B.C., a dead
man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of Nicolaos. It doesn’t normally rain corpses. This one is the politician
Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a
democracy, and with it, kick-started western civilization.
It looks very much as if Ephialtes was assassinated to
stifle the world’s first democracy at its birth. But Ephialtes has a lieutenant: a rising young politician by
the name of Pericles. Pericles commissions the clever young
Nicolaos to expose the assassin. Nicolaos walks the mean streets of classical Athens in
search of a killer. He’s totally confident he’ll succeed in
finding him. There are only a few small problems. Pericles is looking
over his shoulder, critiquing his every move. Nicolaos would
like to get closer (much closer) to Diotima, the intelligent
and annoyingly virgin priestess of Artemis. He’d prefer not
to go near Pythax, the brutally tough chief of the city
guard. It would definitely help if the main suspect weren’t
Xanthippus, a leading conservative and, worst of all, the
father of Pericles. But most of all, what Nicolaos really needs is to shake off
his irritating twelve-year-old brother, Socrates, who keeps
making helpful suggestions. Can Nicolaos save Athens, democracy, and the future of
western civilization?
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