"2001-" . . . . "San Francisco (Calif.)" . . "The Syracuse Codex"@en . . . "Suspense fiction"@en . . "Gyrating events eventually lead Danny to an antiquarian text that reveals evidence damning a sixth-century Roman empress for intrigues involving her son and some priceless trinkets, all of which seem to have bearing on Renee's sordid activities."@en . "Suspense fiction" . . . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Codex Siracuza" . "Fiction" . "Kodeks Kartagiński"@pl . . "Powieść amerykańska"@pl . "Syracuse Codex"@pl . . "Mystery fiction"@en . . "A floozy's murder jump-starts a caper mixing scholarly skullduggery and hard-boiled mayhem. San Francisco frame maker Danny Kestrel has just driven away from a one-night stand with nymphomaniac art patron Renee Knowles when she's bumped off with a single gunshot, leaving him the main suspect in her killing. Danny investigates Renee's dealings in the underground antique trade and immediately runs afoul of crooks convinced that she passed him a secret treasure she finagled in her final days."@en . . . . . . "The Syracuse codex"@en .