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Three linked crime novellas with the same main characters, set in Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Memphis in 193 and 207 AD. In the first, told by an eyewitness, the praetorian guard runs riot in Rome from January to March 193 as Commodus, Pertinax and Didius Julianus take the throne within a few months. In the second, a senator's son who has robbed the temple of the Great Mother is found murdered outside his home, and Tiberius, known as the Treasure Thief and close to Emperor Septimius Severus, follows the victim's steps into the temple to catch the killer. In the third, Tiberius' close friend Cotrix clashes with a powerful guild of sea traders while haunted by an invisible woman, a ghostly figure who draws him to Alexandria and then to Memphis.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

484 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Italy, Türkiye, Egypt, 193–207 AD

First published

2011 by Paradox

ISBN

9789545531279 (original)