by Gary Corby
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Trouble is afoot in Athens and Nico, the aspiring 21 year old investigator, is called upon to get to the bottom of it! Our hero is Nico, who wants to be an investigator but is being pressured by his very traditional father to go into the family sculpting business. Socrates is his younger brother...
This is the second volume in the series begun with The Pericles Commission, and is set the next year, in 460 B.C. Nicolaus' father has refused to let him marry the girl of his choice (Diotima), who has gone off to become a priestess of Artemis at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Meanwhile, the ...