title: Judgment Day for the Shroud of Turin
author: Walter C. Mccrone
description: "..the definitive analysis of the evidence by the man who actually did the research..recommended for specialists and dabblers alike." -- <i>Internet Bookwatch, July, 2001</i><br /><br />"This is an excellent, convincing book for any objective reader." -- <i>The Geis Letter #63</i>
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  ## The House Of The Vestals
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Steven Saylor  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## DEATH WEARS A MASK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Eco," I said, "do you mean to tell me that you have never seen a play?"
  
  
  
  
  
  He looked up at me with his big brown eyes and shook his head.
  
  
  
  
  
  "Never laughed at the bumbling slaves who have a falling-out? Never swooned to
  see the young heroine abducted by pirates? Never thrilled at the discovery
  that our hero is the secret heir to a vast fortune?"
  
  
  
  
  
  Eco's eyes grew even larger, and he shook his head more vigorously.
  
  
  
  
  
  "Then there must be a remedy, this very day!" I said.
  
  
  
  
  
  It was the Ides of September, and a more beautiful autumn day the gods had
  never fashioned. The sun shone warmly on the narrow streets and gurgling
  fountains of Rome; a light breeze swept, up from the Tiber, cooling the seven
  hills; the sky above was a bowl of purest azure, without a single cloud. It
  was the twelfth day of the sixteen days set aside each 