by John Maddox Roberts · 10/18 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264039255
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«Échec au Sénat» is the historical mystery novel by John Maddox Roberts, published by 10/18 in paperback (283 pages, in French).
Rome, 70 BC. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, a member of an influential family, prefers to live in the humble Subura district and work as an investigator for the commission of the Twenty-Six. His superiors assign him to investigate the murder of a businessman from Antioch linked to the city's high circles.
First installment of the SPQR series. The original work, The King's Gambit, was published in 1993; this French edition features a translation by Alexis Champon.
Work aimed at readers of historical crime fiction and fans of the Roman world.
John Mackinnon Robertson was a prolific Scottish journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918.
