The Marathon conspiracy / Gary Corby.
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TextSeries: Corby, Gary. Athenian mysteries ; 4.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Soho Crime, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 330 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781616953874; 9781616953881Subject(s): Diotima (Legendary character) -- Fiction | Hippias, -490 B.C. -- Fiction | Nicolaos (Fictitious character : Corby) -- Fiction | Private investigators -- Greece -- Athens -- Fiction | Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction | Missing children -- Fiction | Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. But when they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most famous school for girls. When one of the children is killed, apparently by a bear, and another girl disappears in the night, Diotima's childhood teacher asks her former pupil to help them. Meanwhile a skull discovered in a cave not far from the sanctuary has proven to be the remains of the last tyrant to rule Athens. The Athenians fought the Battle Marathon to keep this man out of power. He was supposed to have died thirty years ago, in faraway Persia. What are his remains doing outside the city walls? Nico's boss, the great Athenian statesman Pericles, wants answers, and he wants Nico to find them. What makes it all so ominous is that the skull was discovered by the two students of the Sanctuary of Artemis who are dead and missing.
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Nicolaos, Classical Athens's favorite sleuth, and his partner in investigation, the clever ex-priestess Diotima, have taken time out of their assignments to come home to get married. But when they arrive in Athens, there's a problem waiting for them. The Sanctuary of Artemis is the ancient world's most famous school for girls. When one of the children is killed, apparently by a bear, and another girl disappears in the night, Diotima's childhood teacher asks her former pupil to help them. Meanwhile a skull discovered in a cave not far from the sanctuary has proven to be the remains of the last tyrant to rule Athens. The Athenians fought the Battle Marathon to keep this man out of power. He was supposed to have died thirty years ago, in faraway Persia. What are his remains doing outside the city walls? Nico's boss, the great Athenian statesman Pericles, wants answers, and he wants Nico to find them. What makes it all so ominous is that the skull was discovered by the two students of the Sanctuary of Artemis who are dead and missing.
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