Aphrodite Means Death
By John Appleby
1951
First Published
3.54
Average Rating
251
Number of Pages
The Aphrodite of Melos, better known as the Venus de Milo, is a famous armless figure which is now in the Louvre. What is the meaning of its strange posture? What has happened to the missing arms? These are riddles that have caused more speculation than the mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa. But not ones in which Jane Arden, who went to an Aegean island for a quiet holiday, expected to be involved. Nor did she expect to find anyone like Robert Scrivener, who lived in a house surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by a tough ex-paratrooper. Why he was there, and what made him keep returning across the sea to Athens and the Acropolis is the theme of this adventure story, which reaches its climax when Scrivener, face to face with danger in the floodlit Acropolis, becomes to his own surprise a ruthless man of action.
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3.54
Number of Ratings
26
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