Title: A murder in Thebes
First published: 1998
Description: Historical novel set in Thebes, Greece, in 335 B.C.  Second in the Alexander the Great series, following  *A Murder in Macedon*.

Believing Alexander has been killed in Thessaly, the Thebans besiege the Macedonian garrison. Returning, Alexander defeats them and destroys the city. A mystery surrounds the death of the garrison commander and Alexander asks his friend, the Israelite Miriam Bartimaeus, to investigate and to uncover the identity of a spy.
Subjects: Fiction, Oedipus (Greek mythology), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, general, Greece, fiction
Places: Thebes (Greece)
People: Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C)
Time periods: Ancient Greece
LC classification: PR6051.P614 M88 1998