Аннотация
Lindsey Davis
A Body In The Bath House
ROME AND OSTIA SPRING, ad 75But for Rhea Favonia, we might have lived with it. "There's a smelll There's a horrible smell. I'm not going in the rel
I didn't need to be an informer to know we were stuck. When a four-year-old girl reckons she has detected something nasty, you just give in and look for it. My little niece would not go near the bath house until we proved there was nothing horrible in the caldarium. The more we scoffed and told her the hot room was only smelly because of its new plaster, the more Rhea screamed hysterically at bath time. There was nothing visible, and the rest of us tried to ignore it. But the child's insistence unsettled everyone.
There was a faint odour. If I tried sniffing it out, I lost it. When I decided there had been nothing, straight away I smelled it again.
At least Helena and I were able to go home to our own new house. My sister Maia and her children had to stay on there on th...
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