Historical murder mystery for children set in Rome at the time of Claudius. Adrastos is a slave boy who works in the kitchen. He has a tame monkey. The young Nero, who will one day be an infamous emperor, visits the kitchen hoping to see the monkey. He and Adrastos make friends. Both have a complicated relationship with the adult world whose brutality they have experienced in different ways. Nero's dysfunctional family have tendency to kill one another while Adrastos has barely got a family. Together they roam the streets at night, listen to conversations they shouldn't have heard, while trying to piece together what lies behind the disappearance of a monkey and a dead body.
- ISBN13 9781911427063
- Publish Date 25 April 2018
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Everything with Words
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English