Death Ex Machina
Gary Corby
Fiction C811a5
A theatrical murder sends classical Athens into uproar
It’s
the time of the Great Dionysia, the largest arts festival of the
ancient world, held each year in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. But
there’s a problem: A ghost is haunting Athens’s grand theater.
Nicolaos
and his clever partner in sleuthing (and now in matrimony), the
priestess Diotima, are hired to rid the theater of the ghost so that the
festival can begin. With the help of Theokritos, the High Priest of
Dionysos, they exorcise the ghost publicly, while secretly suspecting
that a human saboteur is the actual culprit.
Their efforts to protect the theater fall short when one of the actors is found hanged from the machine used to carry
actors through the air when they play the part of gods. It’s quite a theatrical murder.
As
Nico and Diotima dig into the actor’s past, they discover all was not
as it seemed. There are enough suspects to fill a theater. As the
festival approaches and pressure mounts on all sides, can they hunt down
the killer in time? Or will they simply have to hope for a deus ex machina?
(from publisher)
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