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Spqr I: The King's Gambit: A Mystery

Spqr I: The King's Gambit: A Mystery

Roberts, John Maddox

Paperback

Series: Spqr Roman Mysteries, Book 1

Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0312277059
ISBN13: 9780312277055
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: Aug 24 2001
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome.

In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy. But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger--highborn commander of the local vigiles--was determined to investigate. Despite official apathy, brazen bribes, and sinister threates, Decius uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government that threatens to destroy him and the government he serves.

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