The Deadliest Fever

        THE DEADLIEST FEVER, by June Trop, is set in first-century CE Roman-occupied Alexandria, a city second in splendor only to Rome. Still, Miriam often finds herself in the malignant underbelly of the city, with its sinister alleys jammed with flat-faced tenements, its sleazy inns reeking from despair, and its pocked walkways dotted […]