Keith Moray's DEATH OF A POET, set in ancient Ptolemaic Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Ptolemy Philadelphus, in which the new overseer of the police in the city of Alexandria is called with his sergeant to investigate a series of gruesome murders following the death of a poet, who had been contemptuously tossed into the sea sealed in a lead jar by an admiral for insulting the pharaoh's wife, to Amy Durant at Sapere, by Isabel Atherton at Creative Authors (world English).