Ariadne's Children

by RoderickBeaton (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $13.87

  Fate brings Lionel Robertson to Crete. The assassin's bullet in Sarajevo in 1914, Minoan gemstones, a bad marriage, all lead to his obsession with Europe's earliest civilization and the excavation of Ariadne's Summer Palace. But a curse emanates from the site for later generations of his line.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.27

  It is random fate which brings Lionel Robertson-patriarch,collector and old rogue-to Crete.The assassin's bullet in Sarajevo in 1914,a hoard of engraved Minoan gemstones,an arid marriage,all lead to his obsession with Europe's earliest civilisation and the excavation of Ariadne's Summer Palace. But for subsequent generations of the Robertson line,a dark shadow emanates from the ancient site,and a series of mysteries which engulf the family.