Showing Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld

Paperback. Pub Date: November 2002 Pages: 272 Publisher: Sandpiper In these two delightful history-mysteries seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes ... thanks to some help from their cranky teacher a little bit of logic and a lot of amusing misadventure. Yes. Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school. but no. he did not eak into the schoolroom. did not tie up his teacher. and certainly did not paint his slur about Caius on the Temple of Minerva (even if it is in Rufus's own handwriting). Rufus is doomed unless his six classmates can find out who is really responsible. Every hour seems to ing a new. confusing clue ... until the boys finally stumble upon someone who is not what he appears to be. In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused. a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall.