By Albert A. Bell Jr.
At the seashores of gorgeous Lake Como in Roman Italy, a Greek tragedy has taken position. 20 years later, a skeleton falls out of a wall in Pliny’s villa, bearing mute witness to kinfolk secrets and techniques and crimes.
Pliny the more youthful is clever approximately every thing yet girls. He has the same opinion to his wife’s and mother’s needs to marry off his lover, Aurora, to a different slave, yet neglects telling her till the marriage! so as to add to his difficulties, while development a wing onto his Lake Como villa, workmen find a skeleton. As is Pliny’s behavior, he launches a systematic research of the crime, yet quickly gets nameless warnings and threats to stop. Then his spouse, Livia, is kidnapped!
• As within the prior books, a thesaurus of Roman phrases and an inventory of old and fictional characters are integrated
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