The House of the Vestals
The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
New York : Minotaur Books, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Description: x, 228 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Contents:
Death wears a mask -- The tale of the treasure house -- A will is a way -- The lemures -- Little Caesar and the pirates -- The disappearance of the Saturnalia silver -- King Bee and honey -- The Alexandrian cat -- The House of the Vestals -- The life and times of Gordianus the Finder : a partial chronology -- Historical notes.
Subjects:
Gordianus, the Finder (Fictitious character), 110 B.C.- -- Fiction.
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Fiction.
Gordianus, the Finder (Fictitious character), 110 B.C.- -- Fiction.
Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780312582418
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
M Saylor | St. Andrews Indoors | Mystery | In |