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  • The Sirens of Surrentum - the Villa Limona for romance & mystery APR 2006 12

    Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010

  • Take the Tuscan Sea harbors: Puteoli is too congested by commercial shipping, Ostia is beset by mudflats, Surrentum is overcrowded by fishing boats, and Cosa has to be kept for steeling the iron sows from Ilva.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Take the Tuscan Sea harbors: Puteoli is too congested by commercial shipping, Ostia is beset by mudflats, Surrentum is overcrowded by fishing boats, and Cosa has to be kept for steeling the iron sows from Ilva.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There was a landscape panel, a stunning turquoise seascape, with finely touched white villas on a shore that looked exactly like Surrentum or Herculaneum.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • One day, if he ever turned into a chubby landowner with villas at Lake Volusena and Surrentum, our dear Aulus could purchase his own curiosities in the safe knowledge that he knew how to oil a set of moving doves so they pecked up model corn from a golden dish.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • He and I knew exactly what that villa at Surrentum was now worth.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • Both lanistae had produced impeccable alibis, Calliopus proving he was at the theatre with his mistress (in his wife Artemisia's absence at the Surrentum holiday home) and Saturninus declaring he had been out to dinner with Euphrasia, which cleared her too.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • I wondered now if Artemisia had been sent to the villa at Surrentum in December not just to stop her nagging about her husband's mistress, but actually as a punishment.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • “He must be afraid Artemisia will insist on him following her to Surrentum at this awful time of year.”

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • “Oho! That must be how Calliopus acquired his desirable cliff-top gem at Surrentum.”

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

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