- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: High Country Publishers (Jan 15 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 097130453X
- ISBN-13: 978-0971304536
- Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 535 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #532,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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First-century Smyrna comes alive as the scene of a horrific murder. Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, and Luke, travelers in a caravan bound for Rome, become investigators when no Roman magistrates are available. Suspects abound: gamblers, arcane priestesses and Christians. What is the secret of one of the victim'ss own slaves, a beautiful blond, and the German giant shadowing her?
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This road goes nowhere,
By Michael Melcher (Highland Park, IL. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger (Hardcover)
Of all the novels I have read, this may be the worst. In the style of "Columbo" type TV shows you find out pretty quick who our detective thinks is the killer, the only surprise is how he catches him. The author also has a common but bad habit of endowing his protagonist with the sensibilities and morals of a 21st Century "moral majority" type Republican.All this makes for characters that are stiff as a board and a plot that is an extra.
4.0 out of 5 stars
All Roads Lead To Murder,
By A Customer
This review is from: All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger (Hardcover)
Who doesn't love a great mystery? I know that I do. The reason I love this book is that it is suspenseful and gripping. I was immediately drawn into the plot and the details that the author describes in the book. Not only is it a great mystery but it provides Roman history for its reader as well. It gives us a look into the Roman citizen and his life.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great new Roman mystery,
By A Customer
This review is from: All Roads Lead to Murder: A Case From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger (Hardcover)
If a writer wants to introduce a new series in the somewhat crowded field of Roman mysteries, he'd better have a unique twist. Albert Bell has done that. Instead of fictional sleuths, he uses historical characters, Pliny the Younger and the historian Tacitus, in the first of what promises to be a fine series. Bell combines historical knowledge, witty writing, and a plot with just enough complications and suspects to lead to a thoroughly satisfying conclusion. Pliny and Tacitus have to find out who murdered a man travelling with them while also protecting a beautiful young slave girl who may be the killer's next victim. I can't wait for the next one!
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