Murder and mayhem may seem like unreasonable company for Aristotle, one of the founding minds of western philosophy. But in the skilled hands of Margaret Doody, the pairing could not be more logical. With her detective novels, Doody brings a Holmesian hero to the bloodied streets of ancient Greece, trading the pipe and deerstalker of Sherlock for the woolen chiton and sandals of Aristotle. In Aristotle Detective, we first meet Stephanos - naive Watson to Aristotle"s learned Holmes - a young Athenian and student of Aristotle who must clear his exiled cousin of murder and save his family"s honor in a tense public trial.