The Fugitive of Corinth

By Caroline Lawrence
"The Fugitive of Corinth" is the tenth book in the Roman Mysteries series. It takes place in Corinth, Athens and Delphi, which are all in Greece. Flavia Gemina and her friends are staying in an hostel in Corinth, when, one night, they hear some yells from Aristo's and Captain Geminus's rooms. When they arrive there they see that Captain Geminus has been stabbed and their tutor Aristo has a bloody knife in his hands. Flavia, seeing her father lying in a pool of blood, faints, so she doesn't see that her father is still alive. Helen, the landlady, realizes and after making two of her slaves bring Aristo to the authorities, she calls the doctor Mordecai. The next morning they discover that Aristo has escaped, so the four friends and a sailor begin pursuing him. They will need all their skill to catch Aristo and understand his reason for stabbing Captain Geminus: if you want to know how this book ends, read it!