Roman Justice: SPQR--Too Roman to Handle

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Synopsis
One private eye in a toga, Petronius, must solve the mystery before the war with Carthage breaks out and the slave riot overtakes Ancient Rome. He has his hands full. Roman Justice: SPQR is about Romans too hot to handle on the prowl to find missing persons as they find a purpose. When wealthy young men and Cato, the Elder's nephew, disappear and moving forward in time, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony trades places with the daughter of the Roman Emperor, Octavian-Augustus's sister and Marc Antony, one private eye in a toga, Petronius, must solve the mystery before the war with Carthage breaks out and the slave riots overtake Rome. The praetor says Petroniuss father has been hired to spy on the Carthaginian prisoner of war slave revolt in Setia, near Rome. What happens when he meets the immortal time traveler, king Masinissa of Numidia and becomes a Roman personal eye, a detective in a toga, with a profound responsibility to do a good deed and tend to charity while on his way to start a war? Everything has a purpose. Petronius's is to slide beyond merely offering comfort. He also tends to charity and does good deeds. Thus is the life of a proto-detective in a toga, a personal eye, a ransomer and a catalyst for Roman justice. Detectives in togas Petronius and Cato the Elder's spitfire bride join with King Masinissa of Numidia to do good indeeds instead of start the 3rd Punic War between Rome and Carthage, quell the slave riots, and find missings persons who turn up as shape-shifting immortal cats and human private eyes in togas in Rome of 150 BCE.
Copyright:
2003

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
118 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780595272822
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Anne Hart
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Anne Hart
Proofread By:
Dr. Kenneth Cross
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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This excellent, fast-moving book takes the reader through the authentic streets and markets of ancient Rome and beyond. The characters range in age and role so that the book is suitable for all members of a family as a wonderful read, set during the 3rd Punic war featuring Cato the Elder and his personal eye (detective in a toga), Petronius, featuring the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony and her sister, the daughter of emperor Augustus, who trade places. Time travel ranges between 150 BCE and the years after Cleopatra's death when her daughter is married to Juba, the King of Mauretania in Africa. The characters must perform good deeds at the moment when they are ordered to make war with Carthage and quell the slave riots. Fascinating shape-shifting characters through time and human to cat transformation of these immortal Romans.