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The House of Death is the Paul Doherty Alexander the Great mystery set after the conquest of the Persian capital, with a murder in the captured palace that requires the royal investigator Telamon to navigate Macedonian, Persian, and Athenian factional politics simultaneously.
Doherty handles the period with his usual research-anchored confidence. The Persian palace geography, the Macedonian court politics, and the specific hellenization tensions that Alexander's campaign was already producing are all rendered with care. The puzzle is fair.
Three stars. Recommended to fans of the series and to readers who like historical mysteries with serious antiquity settings.
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