Albert A. Bell Jr.

• Apr-2020
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Pliny joins his best friend, Tacitus, on a hurried trip to Gaul because of family illness. But Pliny and his lover, Aurora, along with their fellow travelers, are stranded by an avalanche in a remote Alpine village―the same one they'd visited ten y...

• Sep-2018
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Pliny the Younger hoped to improve relations with his unpleasant wife and her mother by investing in a warehouse on the Tiber with them. Now the building has collapsed due to heavy rains. Pliny discovers several dead people inside, including a man wi...

• May-2017
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On the shores of beautiful Lake Como in Roman Italy, a Greek tragedy has taken place. Twenty years later, a skeleton falls out of a wall in Pliny's villa, bearing mute witness to family secrets and crimes. Pliny the Younger is intelligent about eve...

• Sep-2014
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Plinyâ�,��"�s servant Aurora, who is also the forbidden love of his life, has played Good Samaritan to a woman who claims to be searching for her missing husband. Thinking he can help the woman, Pliny steps in, assisted, as usual, by his friend Taci...

• Sep-2013
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A few years after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, where he lost his adoptive father and mentor, Pliny the Younger is asked by his friend Aurelia to help her husband Calpurnius, who has been accused of murder in Naples. Pliny has solved previous crimes,...

• Dec-2011
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While out hunting, Pliny finds a man's body. He appears lifeless, but Pliny cannot find a cause of death. He locks the body in a stable, but in the morning the body is gone. Strangers appear at Pliny's door, claiming to be the man's children. One sin...

• Apr-2011
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The ancient Roman world comes to life in this complex tale of horrific murder. Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, the future historian, are returning from a posting by caravan and break the journey in Smyrna. In the morning one of their number is discove...

• Apr-2010
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The second in this award-winning series of contemporary juvenile mysteries by Albert A. Bell, Jr., The Secret of the Bradford House pits Steve and Kendra against all kinds of obstacles. Will the new girl, Rachel Mendoza, unseat Kendra as local tennis...

• Jun-2008
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Named a best mystery of 2008 by Library Journal! Assigned by Emperor Domitian to search for blood heirs to the Emperor Augustus, Pliny and Tacitus seek solutions to layers of mysteries. Why is a humble workman's death important to the ruler of Rome, ...

• Sep-2000
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Corie Foster, a travel writer, and professor Michael Herrington meet while staying in a small town in Italy and observing an archaeological excavation. But someone is following Corie, who seems to bear a striking resemblance to the late wife of a wea...

• Jul-1905
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Sarah DeGraaf reunites adoptees with their biological parents -- bittersweet for this Korean-American. A client's wealthy mother died under mysterious circumstances and Sarah's commitment takes her farther than regulations allow. As long-concealed fa...

Being a slave in ancient Rome meant having no control over her life, as Lorcis the flute player learned on the day she was sold by the man she regarded as her protector -- even her lover. She left his house determined that no man would ever sell her ...