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SPQR Roman Mysteries
St. Martin's Griffin
October 2003
On Sale: October 2, 2003
Featuring: Decius Caecilius Metellus
288 pages
ISBN: 0312320183
EAN: 9780312320188
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Mystery Historical
Every culture has its wild entertainment, but the Roman
Saturnalia is looked upon as the granddaddy of them all. Roberts's vivid fictional account of the annual event takes
place in first century Rome is a historically correct
picture of excess, with the city's ordinary life shut down,
all rules and most laws inoperative, and even slaves
permitted to celebrate without restraint. At the same time,
the noted family of Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger
have reluctantly summoned the young playboy, banished to the
island of Rhodes for his wild ways, to seek his help in
solving a crime that touches them directly and dangerously.
They need him to use his investigative talents to look into
the poison death of a politically powerful relative and the
suspicion that it is the man's wife who administered the
dose. Decius, convinced she is innocent (of this murder, at
any rate) looks further for the killer---a quest that leads
him to a secret, banned cult of witchcraft being practiced
by highborn Romans of both sexes. With the witches at his
heels, Decius plunges into the maelstrom of Rome at the
height of Saturnalia, and barely escapes with his life.
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