Intrigues are boiling in the Eternal City and blood is being shed - Gaius Julius Caesar is striving for power. Having many enemies, Senator Decius Lucilius Metellus the Younger considered it best to leave Rome somewhere where music could be heard and wine flowed, but there were no hired killers lurking around. Alexandria, the second most magnificent city of the Ancient World, could not have been a better choice. Having joined the diplomatic mission, Decius was already looking forward to feasts in the royal palace and learned conversations with the philosophers of the great Library. But the gods, it seems, have not prepared for him a single minute of quiet life: the very first feast is overshadowed by the murder of one of the learned men. And the Roman “Sherlock Holmes” begins a new investigation...