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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continuing the epic story begun in his "New York Times"--Bestselling novel "Roma," Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome's empire.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Nine crime stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, a detective in ancient Rome who marries his slave. Part mystery, part a social history of the period from the end of Sulla's dictatorship to the Spartacan slave revolt.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Gordianus, recently returned from Egypt with his wife Bethesda, is essentially retired from his previous profession of "Finder" but even he cannot refuse the call of Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Troubled by dreams foretelling disaster and fearing a conspiracy against the life of Caesar, she had hired someone to investigate the rumors.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Julius Caesar, appointed dictator for life by the Roman Senate, has pardoned his remaining enemies and rewarded his friends. Now Caesar is preparing to leave Rome with his legions to wage a war of conquest against the Parthian Empire. But he has a few more things to do before he goes. Gordianus the Finder, after decades of investigating crimes and murders involving the powerful, has been raised to Equestrian rank and has firmly and finally decided...
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the later Roman Republic, a collection of short mystery tales featuring ancient Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder follows the early career of the classical sleuth.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1996], ©1995
Language
English
Description
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., two strange visitors to Rome--an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest--seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give--help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he is murdered.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The young Gordianus has been waiting out the chaos in Alexandria, with Bethesda, when he gets a cryptic message from his former tutor and friend, Antipater. Now in Ephesus, as part of Mithridates' entourage, Antipater seems to think that his life is in imminent danger. To rescue him, Gordianus concocts a daring, even foolhardy, scheme to go behind enemy lines and bring Antipater to safety. But there are powerful, and deadly forces, at work here,...
10) Rubicon
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, sleuth Gordianus the Finder investigates the death by garroting of Pompey's cousin. The probe plays out amid political turmoil as Julius Caesar invades from Gaul, starting a civil war.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When the high-born populist politician, Publius Clodius, is murdered on the Appian Way, Rome explodes into riot and arson. All fingers point at Titus Milo, his arch-enemy and a friend of Cicero. The emperor calls on Gordianus the Finder to find out the truth.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Heading to Egypt in search of a cure for the mysterious illness of his ailing wife, Bethesda, Gordianus the Finder arrives in a country torn by war and power struggles, a situation that worsens when Bethesda vanishes.
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet by plying his trade of solving puzzles and finding things out for pay. He whiles away his time with his slave Bethesda, waiting for the world to regain its sanity. But on the day Gordianus turns twenty-two, Bethesda is...
Author
Series
Roma Sub Rosa series volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A prequel to the best-selling Roma Sub Rosa series traces 18-year-old Gordianus's journey to the Seven Wonders of the World, each of which pose a mystery that challenges his budding powers of deduction and the tenacity of celebrated poet Antipater of Sidon, who fakes his death to accompany young Gordianus.
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