The first title in a mystery series set in ancient Rome Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. But THE THIEVES OF OSTIA is first and foremost a whodunnit, with lots of twist and cliffhangers - and a mystery for the reader to solve. Her picture of daily life in Ancient Rome is wonderfully vivid. Caroline Lawrence is a terrific storyteller and a delightfully readable and accessible writer with characters that children will relate to. Together they work out who severed the heads of the watchdogs that guard people's homes, and why he did it. As the story progresses, she makes friends with Jonathan, Nubia and the mute beggar boy, Lupus.
The heroine, the courageous Flavia, is a curious girl with more than a touch of the detectives skill. The thieves of Ostia by Lawrence, Caroline. There is Jonathan, the Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian) Nubia, the African slave girl and Lupus, a mute beggar boy. The Thieves of Ostia is a delightful and well-written read, full of accurate yet lightly woven-in descriptions of 1st century AD Roman Italy. The daughter of a ship's captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she acquires a gang of three friends who help her. Flavia Gemina is brilliant at finding things, so it's natural for her to solve mysteries. OL5718733W Page_number_confidence 91.51 Pages 214 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200729162720 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 327 Scandate 20200716235237 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781842550205 Tts_version 4.Book Description Paperback. Publication date 2001 Topics Manners and customs, Mystery and detective stories, Ostia (Extinct city), Rome. Urn:lcp:thievesofostia0000lawr:lcpdf:2ba9f63a-8fd3-41d3-b6e5-9b9a406eb105 The thieves of Ostia by Lawrence, Caroline.
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