Roman Games - Bruce MacBain
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Tags: Mystery, Novel, Historical Fiction
Roman Games A Plinius Secundus Mystery By: Bruce Macbain Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot Series: Plinius Secundus, Book 1 Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 01-10-2010 Language: English Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc., Rome, September A.D. 96., When the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, his slaves are suspected. Pliny, a very respectable young senator and lawyer, is ordered by the emperor Domitian to investigate. However, the Ludi Romani, the Roman Games, have just begun, and for the next 15 days the law courts are in recess. If Pliny cant identify the murderer in that time, Verpas entire slave household will be burned alive in the arena., Pliny teams up with Martial, a starving author of bawdy verses and denizen of the Roman demimonde. Pooling their respective talents, they unravel a plot that involves Jewish and Christian atheists, exotic Egyptian cultists, and a missing horoscope th
