Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor.
Not especially happy at being despatched to Gaul, and even less enamoured of his enforced travelling companion, the insufferable Domitius Crinas, Corvinus is i.
The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus\'s help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as he was taking an afternoon nap in his summer-house at Lugdunum.
June, AD 42.
Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor