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Название книги: Arms of Nemesis
Автор(ы): Steven Saylor
Жанр: Исторический детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Arms-of-Nemesis-192220.html
CONTENTSPart One CORPSES, LIVING AND DEADPart Two THE JAWS OF HADESPart Three DEATH IN A CUPPart Four FUNERAL GAMES
Epilogue Author's Note
The BAYS of NAPLESAt the Time of the Spartacan Slave Revolt, 72 B.C.Part OneCorpses, Living and DeadFor all his fine qualities – his honesty and devotion, his cleverness, his uncanny agility – Eco was not well suited for answering the door. Eco was mute.But he was not and has never been deaf. He has, in fact, the sharpest ears of anyone I've ever known. He is also a light sleeper, a habit held over from the wretched, watchful days of his childhood, before his mother abandoned him and I took him in from the street and finally adopted him. Not surprisingly, it was Eco who heard the knock at the door in the second hour after nightfall, when everyone in the household had gone to bed. It was Eco who greeted my nocturnal visitor, but was unable to send him away, short of shooing at him the way a farmer shoos an errant goose from his doorway.Therefore, what else could
Название книги: Arms of Nemesis
Автор(ы): Steven Saylor
Жанр: Исторический детектив
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Arms-of-Nemesis-192220.html
CONTENTSPart One CORPSES, LIVING AND DEADPart Two THE JAWS OF HADESPart Three DEATH IN A CUPPart Four FUNERAL GAMES
Epilogue Author's Note
The BAYS of NAPLESAt the Time of the Spartacan Slave Revolt, 72 B.C.Part OneCorpses, Living and DeadFor all his fine qualities – his honesty and devotion, his cleverness, his uncanny agility – Eco was not well suited for answering the door. Eco was mute.But he was not and has never been deaf. He has, in fact, the sharpest ears of anyone I've ever known. He is also a light sleeper, a habit held over from the wretched, watchful days of his childhood, before his mother abandoned him and I took him in from the street and finally adopted him. Not surprisingly, it was Eco who heard the knock at the door in the second hour after nightfall, when everyone in the household had gone to bed. It was Eco who greeted my nocturnal visitor, but was unable to send him away, short of shooing at him the way a farmer shoos an errant goose from his doorway.Therefore, what else could
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