by John Maddox Roberts · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401478017
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«El misterio del amuleto» is the historical mystery novel by John Maddox Roberts, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
In ancient Rome, the crimes of a retired gladiator and a foreign merchant interest almost no one amid the gangs and political struggles. Decius Caecilius, chief of police, decides to investigate them despite influential figures trying to keep him off the case, and he ends up uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of power.
First installment of the SPQR series; the original edition, titled SPQR, is from 1990. It was a nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Original Paperback in 1991. Translation by Aurora Echevarría.
For readers of historical and crime fiction who want to follow an investigation in republican Rome.
John Mackinnon Robertson was a prolific Scottish journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918.
