The great Greek philosopher heads to Delphi on the hunt for a kidnapped heiress in this series of "witty, elegant whodunits" (Times Literary Supplement).

330BC: Alexander the Great has sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world has ever known. The night of the Silent Dinner, when Athens placates the spirits of the dead, passes with a creeping mist accompanied by eerie portents and a strange disappearance. Stephanos and his teacher, the philosopher Aristotle, are about to be drawn into solving the perplexing abduction case of Anthia, the heiress of a prominent silver merchant. All that is known is that the abductor and the heiress are on the road to Delphi and its ancient oracle—whose help may be needed when a murder complicates the case in this follow-up to the "eminently enjoyable" Aristotle Detective (Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse Mysteries).

"Why did no one think of this before?"—The Times (UK)

Published
2000
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Crime fighting in ancient Greece, stories narrated by former pupil Stephanos playing Watson to Aristotle’s Holmes.

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