by David Wishart (Author)
In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 41/2 ft solid gold statue of a female baker, one of a large number of valuable gifts to the Delphic Oracle by the 6th century BC King Croesus of Lydia, has reappeared and is being offered for sale in Athens on the black market. Corvinus agrees to be his agent and to try and buy it. But, as a result, he finds himself caught up in the world of organised crime, as well as in a deadly struggle of interests with other, less scrupulous, collectors.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 294
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Flame
Published: 04 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0340715294
ISBN 13: 9780340715291
Book Overview: Wisecracking sleuth Marcus Corvinus is on his fourth case in the Oracle of Delphi's missing treasure
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'Witty, engrossing and ribald ... it misses nothing in its evocation of a bygone time and place'
'Witty, engrossing and ribald ... it misses nothing in its evocation of a bygone time and place'
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