Author: David Wishart Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780340827390 0340827394 |
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When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead, drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, and was heard bad-mouthing him drunkenly in public the day before Murena's death. Nor by the widow, a little stunner half Murena's age who allegedly spent an inordinate amount of time 'under the doctor'. Nor by his daughter or his farm manager. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out. With the help, of course, of his clever wife Perilla - if she can spare the time from her newly acquired passion for gambling . . . As we follow the Byzantine thought processes by which our hero solves the crime, we are entertained along with way with accounts of pisciculture and with a handy guide to 'Twelve Lines', the Roman precursor of backgammon.
This book is part of the "Marcus Corvinus" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Bodies Politic" First published in 2010 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "In at the Death" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Parthian Shot" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Vote for Murder" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "White Murder" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Last Rites" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Old Bones" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sejanus" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Lydian Baker" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Germanicus" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Ovid" First published in 1995 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Illegally Dead" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Foreign Bodies" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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