SPQR Roman Mysteries
Minotaur Books
February 2005
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Featuring: Decius Caecilius Metellus
304 pages ISBN: 0312323204 EAN: 9780312323202 Paperback Add to Wish List
He would rise up as savior of the State, but Decius
Caecilius Metellus the Younger already has a lot on his
mind. In the year of his aedileship, Decius is expected to
stage elaborate and expensive games out of his own pocket.
Along with his duties of pleasing the crowds with the feats
of gladiators and wild beasts, are the more practical, and
commonly neglected, ones of maintaining the city and its
laws. It is these more mundane duties that call him to the
scene of a recently built and more recently collapsed
tenement building. Determined to punish the greedy parties
who used cheap materials and caused the deaths of hundreds,
Decius sets out to exact justice. It is easier said than
done, especially when bodies and evidence go missing, and
his family pressures him to cease the investigation. As he
seeks out the politicians, philosophers, and tradesmen of
the day, it becomes clear that the collapse of the building
was deliberate, and Decius could be going after some of the
most powerful men in Rome.In this eighth installment of the
series, Roberts once again provides authentic detail in the
everyday Roman customs, as well as a fascinating picture of
the growing unsteadiness of this famed Republic.
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