Two for joy
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NoveList Series:
John the Eunuch mysteries volume 2.
Series:
John the Eunuch mysteries volume 2
Publisher:
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date:
2000
Edition:
1st ed
Language:
English
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Winner, the Glyph Award - Best Mystery Honorable Mention, Glyph Best Book Award list IPPY Best Mystery Award finalist John the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian, is skilled at keeping his footing on the treacherous slopes of court intrigue, but even he may slip when presented with a new and byzantine problem: why would a holy man high atop his pillar spontaneously combust during a thunder storm? Soon, other stylites burn to their deaths. John, still fresh from working a tricky murder case two years earlier in One for Sorrow, finds that his investigations are hampered by a pagan philosophy tutor from his youth and a heretical Christian prophet whose ultimatums threaten to topple the Empire. Then murder strikes close to home and John has only days to find a solution before he, his friends, the Emperor Justinian, and the city itself are destroyed. A colorful cast of characters that includes a runaway wife, servants and soldiers, madams and mendicants, a venomous court page and a wealthy landowner or two—not to mention John's bête noire, the Empress Theodora—add texture to this rich, exotic tale.
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Subjects
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Justinian I, 527-565 -- Fiction
Combustion, Spontaneous
Combustion, Spontaneous -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
John the Eunuch (Fictitious character)
John the Eunuch (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Justinian
Justinian -- I, -- Emperor of the East, -- 483?-565. -- Fiction
Mystery
Pillar saints
Pillar saints -- Fiction
Combustion, Spontaneous
Combustion, Spontaneous -- Fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
John the Eunuch (Fictitious character)
John the Eunuch (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Justinian
Justinian -- I, -- Emperor of the East, -- 483?-565. -- Fiction
Mystery
Pillar saints
Pillar saints -- Fiction
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9781890208370
9781615951765
9781615951765
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Electronic books
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Historical Fiction
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Electronic books
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Pillar saints -- Fiction
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