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The Athenian Murders

José Carlos Somoza

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#1364 of 8,085 books · #219 in Historical Fiction

Won the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (2002).

In a dual story set in ancient Greece and modern times, the idealistic Diagoras teams up with Heracles Pontor to solve the murders of young Pluto's Academy students, and the present-day translator of the ancient text pursues what he believes to be a hidden meaning in the words of the writer.

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Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN-13
9780374106775
Topics
Murder investigationAncient GreeceHidden meaning in textTranslation and interpretationDual timeline narrative

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