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Cargando... The Ring That Caesar Worepor Ashley Gardner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Enjoyable light reading--another Leonidas the Gladiator mystery. With his faithful slave/scribe Cassia, Leonidas and Cassia find themselves embroiled in a riddle involving an old ring, a dead body of many years, a complicated plot involving a family of travelling actors and a play written for them, in which their son would play a descendent of King Tarquin coming back to claim the throne. Of course, Nero was most unhappy at this. Leonidas now works for a builder, whom we met in an earlier adventure. They also face an arsonist along with a second dead body, and their escape from a smoke-filled building is harrowing. The printer could have been much more careful; words were left out. Why did the author call the man who ran the popina a landlord, rather than a publican? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Leonidas is coerced into a dice game with a stranger at his local popina-who turns out to not be such a stranger after all. The man's presence puts all around him in danger, and Leonidas struggles to keep his identity secret. Leonidas has no wish to be caught up in this trouble-he's about to begin working as a builder, his ticket out of his life as a gladiator and bodyguard. But the next morning at the building site, Leonidas almost immediately stumbles across a valuable ring buried in the mud, a ring that has the potential to change the destiny of Rome. Nero commands Leonidas and Cassia to uncover everything about this ring, including who owned it and how it had come to be where it was found. They are not allowed to fail. The ring proves to be only the tip of the troubles Leonidas uncovers, with connections from the Emporium to the Esquiline, and danger that visits Leonidas and Cassia very close to home. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I find the author's books very readable with engaging characters and intriguing plots but her failure to do her homework, occasionally apparent in her Regency and Victorian books, becomes impossible to ignore here. At the very least she needs to understand what "patrician", "plebeian", and "equestrian" actually meant in Rome. ( )