Depths of deceit
By: Norman Russell
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781847825193
Subjects: Arnold Box (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police; History; Excavations (Archaeology); Blood accusation
Description: When renowned archaeologist Professor Roderick Ainsworth unearths an ancient Roman temple of Mithras in London's Clerkenwell, his career is set to be crowned with a knighthood. Then a young analytical chemist is murdered in the temple, and circumstances suggest a ritual murder.

On the same day, a prosperous manufacturer is found slaughtered at Carshalton. Again, evidence points to ritual sacrifice. Has the discovery of the Mithraeum revived a dormant cult of Mithras?
Notes: Originally published: London: Robert Hale, 2008.