Later mysteries will be set in Pompeii, Sorento, Capri, and Rome. In the end they all plan to go off to Pompeii during August in A.D. This pleasant little story is politically correct and the characters are remarkably broadminded. More sophisticated listeners will find the story predictable and the dues too obvious. Young listeners will enjoy the characters, their adventures, and the themes of tolerance, friendship, and pluck. The prime suspect is a father whose little girl died weeks earlier of hydrophobia. They try to discover who is killing and beheading the watchdogs on their street. The four children are set upon by feral dogs and chased by slave traders. Flavia buys a young African slave girl named Nubia and takes in an orphaned beggar boy named Lupus, who cannot speak because someone has cut out his tongue. Flavia teams up with Jonathan, a Jewish boy from next door, whose father is a doctor. Flavia Gemina is a young girl who lives in Ostia with her father, a sea captain who is away from home for weeks at a time, allowing her and her young friends to get into danger and solve mysteries. JĬaroline Lawrence's first book is also the first in a series called The Roman Mysteries. MLA style: "The Thieves of Ostia." The Free Library.
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