Book description
When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead,
drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed. Certainly
not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the
landowner, and was heard bad-mouthing him drunkenly in public the day
before Murena's death. Nor by the widow, a little stunner half Murena's
age who allegedly spent an inordinate amount of time 'under the doctor'.
Nor by his daughter or his farm manager. With friends like these, who
needs enemies? Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out. With the help, of
course, of his clever wife Perilla - if she can spare the time from her
newly acquired passion for gambling . . . As we follow the Byzantine
thought processes by which our hero solves the crime, we are entertained
along with way with accounts of pisciculture and with a handy guide to
'Twelve Lines', the Roman precursor of backgammon. David Wishart
studied Classics at Edinburgh University. He then taught Latin and Greek
in school for four years and after this retrained as a teacher of EFL.
He lived and worked abroad for eleven years, working in Kuwait, Greece
and Saudi Arabia, and now lives with his wife and family in Scotland.
