Marcia Mellon, author of TV scripts and detective stories, comes to the Palazzo Agrippina at Arco Felice, just outside Pozzuoli on the Bay of Naples, where the fumaroles at the Phlegraean Fields smoulder like smoke vents from Hell, and in the distance, Mt. Vesuvius rises above the bay, quiescent but menacing. A disparate group of students have enrolled in the Palazzo Agrippinas summer program, bound together by a common interest in Roman archaeology. The director, De Witt Fordham hopes to be appointed dean of his college, and his assistant, Dr. Alex, hopes to take Fordhams place. Decimus Monroe Thatcher, president the society sponsoring Palazzo Agrippina program has come to inspect the session, and with him is son Conradin, a troubled teenager who is a disappointment to his father. Nearby, connected by a path to Palazzo Agrippina back yard, is the Albergo Felice, a small hotel and bar, , where the sinister Luigi and his cousin Tony are in charge. Its bar is a favorite watering hole for students at the Palazzo.
There are two deaths or are they murders? Did Conradin commit suicide? Marcia thinks it was murder. The reader must decide.
A propos de l’auteur
JAMES ALLAN EVANS, University of British Columbia professor, now retired, is a recognized authority on the Mediterranean world, , and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His writings include numerous scholarly books and articles, as well as contributions to journals like the Virginia Quarterly Review, Queens Quarterly, Contemporary Review, Policy Options, the Idler, Literary Review of Canada, and University Affairs. His latest books are The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian; The Beginnings of History: Herodotus and the Persian Wars, and Daily Life in the Hellenistic World from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra.
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