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The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery

Name: The Fatal Scroll: A Herculaneum Mystery
ISBN: 9781778524165

By
- Eric Siblin
With:
- Ivan Sherry
Publisher
- ECW Press

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Duration: 7H 30min
Language: English
Format
Category: Crime

Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient Rome or perhaps an ancient recipe for personal tranquility, but it’s unreadable unless Marcus can figure out a way to unroll the scroll without destroying it. His quest takes him to Naples, where he befriends a Google software engineer days before the man is found dead. Marcus is interviewed by an investigative journalist, Kristi Grainger, and they find themselves on parallel paths leading to a Neapolitan trafficker in antiquities, a tech mogul obsessed with the distant past, and a clutch of academics searching for the lost library of Herculaneum. In a seaside city that is by turns lush and lethal, Marcus must confront the unraveling of more than a scroll.

Release date

Audiobook: 10 June 2025
Ebook: 6 May 2025