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SPQR Roman Mysteries
St. Martin's Griffin
October 2003
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Featuring: Decius Caecilius Metellus
288 pages
ISBN: 0312320191
EAN: 9780312320195
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Mystery Historical
Like so many young men in later generations, Roman
playboy/detective Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is
faced with the necessity of serving in his country's armed
forces. Since a dangerous enemy has become powerful in the
politics of Rome, Decius is just as well out of the city for
a while. He sets out to join Caesar in Gaul (where the
general has come and seen, but has as yet not been able to
conquer. The occupying Roman army is at a standstill. When
Decius shows up in full parade regalia (much to the
amusement of the more informally uniformed veterans) and
accompanied only by his young personal slave. Caesar sets
him the task of discovering who murdered one of his
centurions, a cruel and unfair officer feared and hated by
every man of the one hundred soldiers under him. A further
prod to Decius is that the main suspect is a youth whose
father is a close friend of the Metellus family. With
Caesar's decree that another killer be found in a matter of
hours or the young man dies, Decius has his work cut out for
him. John Maddox Roberts's series set in the first century
A.D. vividly brings to readers a strong sense of the
everyday life of the ancient Romans in the context of our own.
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