Sacred Games by Gary Corby

Author:Gary Corby [Corby, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Mystery, Ancient Greece, Athens, Historical Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781616952273
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2013-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

WE HURRIED BACK to the closest private place—my own tent—with the evidence in hand and pulled the flap closed behind us so we could inspect the booty. Diotima had developed a new theory: that Arakos had been fed hemlock.

“All right,” I said. “Tell me how Uncle Festianos persuaded Arakos to drink it. You think Festianos went up to Arakos the Spartan and said, ‘Here, old chap, there’s hemlock in this cup. Quaff it off like a good chap, would you now?’ I don’t think so. We don’t even know for sure this is truly hemlock.”

“I’m sure it is, Nico,” said Diotima. “Everyone knows hemlock tastes like a dead mouse.”

“Do they? How could anyone know such a thing?” I demanded.

“Well, it doesn’t kill at once,” Diotima said. “Anyone who’s been executed with it could tell you before he expired.”

“Have you ever spoken to a man dying of hemlock?” I asked.

“No.”

“I could try it and see,” offered Socrates. He picked up the poison.

“Don’t be stupid, Socrates,” I said. I snatched the vial from his hand. “You’re not to go anywhere near hemlock, you hear me?”

“Yes, Nico.”

Diotima said, “There are doctors who use hemlock to treat patients with aching joints.”

“Don’t the patients die?”

“I didn’t say they were good doctors.”

“So these vials might be—”

“Medicine.”

“Then the whole thing could be totally innocent. How do we know if the dose in the vials is fatal or therapeutic?” I asked.

“A doctor could tell us if this is medicine,” Diotima said. “But where will we find a doctor?”

I smiled. “Leave that to me,” I said. “I know just the man.”

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