Detectives in Togas

This is the book I read. Detectives in Togas takes place is about a boy named Rufus getting arrested for desecrating a temple wall by painting Caius is a dumbbell on it, when he didn't do it. Rufus' friends and fellow classmates at the Xanthos School, Antonius, Mucius, Flavius, Julius, and Publius, had to find the cluse to prove Rufus is free, with the help of their teacher, Xanthos, of course. They find out that the crime had been brought to the paper before it was committed, and the person who had assaulted Xanthos when they were trying to get the wax tablet Rufus had written on had been wearing a gold chain on their cloak. When the boys went to the Censor to see who sent the courier, and the courier was sent by Ex-consul Tellus. When Xanthos heard this, he went into discussion with the boys, and they decided that Antonius should go to see if there was a banquet on the night of the crime, and for Antonius to memorize all the names under that date. When he returned, he had a cloak with the chain that the boys found the day after Xanthos was assaulted. All the evidence was pointed in Tellus' direction, and in the end, they boys found out that Tellus was Lukos, a famous soothsayer who never left his house, and he only framed Rufus so he wouldn't tell everybody his secret because Tellus needed to pay off debts and got the idea of faking the identity of Lukos so he could make money to pay off those debts. In the end, Tellus commits suicide, and Rufus is innocent. This book has 249 pages.

By:

John Mixner