Floridius, freelance soothsayer, is afraid that he has lost his talent for seeing the future. Threptus wants to find some titbits of information that his mentor can use to convince people he still has the gift, but will a poisoned honey cake lead to disaster along the way?

Join Threptus and Floridius on their hilarious and action-packed adventures among Rome's superstitious underclass, and don't miss this ruder, funnier and still historically accurate companion to The Roman Mysteries.

This is book 2 in The Roman Mystery Scrolls .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Hachette Children's Group .

Michael Morpurgo is the award-winning author of over fifty books for children. He won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Wreck of the Zanzibar, and the Smarties Book Prize for The Butterfly Lion. Several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Michael lives in Devon where he and his wife, Clare, run the charity Farms for City Children. He is currently the Children's Laureate. Andrew Davidson is an acclaimed illustrator. The engravings he did for Ted Hughes' book The Iron Man won him the 1986 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award. He lives in Gloucestershire. Caroline Lawrence is American. She lives with her husband in London. Caroline Lawrence is American. She lives with her husband by the river in London and is active as a speaker in schools and at book festivals. She took part in the British Museum's POMPEII LIVE event, giving talks that were streamed to schools all over the UK, and she is the winner of the 2009 CLASSICS ASSOCIATION PRIZE for 'a significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics'. In addition to the 17 novels in the ROMAN MYSTERIES sequence, Caroline Lawrence has written five spin-off titles, all of which have contributed to total UK sales in excess of 1 million copies. Visit Caroline's website at www. carolinelawrence. com and follow her on Twitter @CarolineLawrenc. Richard Williams is the chief sports writer for the Guardian and the bestselling author of The Death of Ayrton Senna and Enzo Ferrari: A Life. He is a lifelong fan of Nottingham Forest. Richard Williams is a rock critic who has assumed a significant status in popular culture and whose commentaries have helped to cast light, not just on the music, but on our times. A potent force in British rock journalism from the late 1960s and into the 1980s, he is today he holds the post of chief sports writer on the Guardian, but his early professional years were spent preaching the rock - and jazz - gospel. From 1969 to 1973, he worked on Melody Maker, latterly as Deputy Editor. From 1973-1976 he served Island Records in an A&R role. From 1976-1978, he edited Time Out, and returned to Melody Maker as Editor from 1978-1980. He was the first presenter on 'The Old Grey Whistle Test,' wrote for Let It Rock and Streetlife, acted as pop and jazz reviewer on the Times, and wrote books on Phil Spector, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis.