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    "annotation": "<p>In AD 79 Mount Vesuvius blew its top abovePompeii. What was Desiderata doing there that summer, a true case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? It\u2019s a complicated story, but she and her companions had to confront the horrorsof a natural disaster of unprecedented proportions.</p>",
    "description": "<p>In AD 79 the emperor Vespasian was dying and some prophetess  was announcing the end of the world. Meanwhile Desiderata had to deal  with a fresh criminal plot from her old enemy Numa. You\u2019d think that  things couldn\u2019t get any worse, but that was counting without Mount  Vesuvius literally blowing its top above Pompeii.</p><p>What  on earth were our blind \u2018seeker of justice\u2019, her deaf husband Simplex,  and uncle Balbus doing there that summer, a true case of being in the  wrong place at the wrong time? It\u2019s a complicated story, but as it  happened, they had not one, but three equally compelling reasons to visit Campania and pursue their  investigations in this small, provincial, but nevertheless fashionable  town. Little did they know what surprises awaited them.</p><p>Not  only did they have to face their arch-enemy in a blood-curdling  showdown, but they had to confront the horrors of a natural disaster of  unprecedented proportions. Both events would take them to the brink of  their instincts for survival, and ultimately turn some of their  assumptions upside down.</p>",
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