All Roads Lead to Murder - first US edition

by Albert A. Bell, Jr.

In April of AD 83 a caravan of travelers stop at an inn for the night. The next morning one of them is dead, butchered in horrific fashion. No Roman magistrates are on the scene, so Pliny the Younger takes charge until the provincial governor can be summoned. Pliny surprises his friend, Cornelius Tacitus, by suggesting that the cause of death might by something other than the obvious knife wounds . . .

Book has maroon cloth boards with the title in gold on the front board and the spine. A lovely binding, with profuse woodblock-style illuminations including on all chapter pages, by William Martin Johnson, from the first edition of Ben-Hur.

Jacket has always been protected and is price intact at $21.95.