title: Virgins and Martyrs
author:  Simon Maginn 
description: "You look like you're going to fit in nicely." These ominous words are spoken by a young scholar's new landlord. The new apartment is supposed to bring a fresh approach to his thesis on the 14th-century executions of women suspected of being witches. But his environment starts to taunt him with the same themes as in his books, and he has a vision of a hand with a nail through it, and things start falling apart. This intense, inward novel adroitly combines the gradual slip-sliding of reality of a classically "weird tale" and the well-paced suspense of a crime thriller.
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  ONE VIRGIN  
  
  
  TOO MANY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Lindsey Davis
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SILVER PIGS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SHADOWS IN BRONZE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  VENUS IN COPPER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE IRON HAND OF MARS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  POSEIDON’S GOLD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LAST ACT IN PALMYRA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TIME TO DEPART
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A DYING LIGHT IN CORDUBA
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE COURSE OF HONOR
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TWO FOR THE LIONS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY. Copyright © 1999 by Lindsey Davis. All rights reserved.
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or
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