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The Lydian Baker

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10th November 2011

Price: £6.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444732764

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In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 4¬? ft solid gold statue of a female baker, one of a large number of valuable gifts to the Delphic Oracle by the 6th century BC King Croesus of Lydia, has reappeared and is being offered for sale in Athens on the black market. Corvinus agrees to be his agent and to try and buy it. But, as a result, he finds himself caught up in the world of organised crime, as well as in a deadly struggle of interests with other, less scrupulous, collectors.

Reviews

<i>Independent on Sunday</i>
Praise for David Wishart: 'Witty, engrossing and ribald ... it misses nothing in its evocation of a bygone time and place'
<i>The Times</i>
A taut thriller in which ancient Rome springs to life
<i>Scotland on Sunday</i>
David Wishart wields an entertaining stylus . . . a terrific book to hole up with for the holidays