The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786712414 ISBN 13: 9780786712410

Publisher: Running Press, 2003

Synopsis

A host of totally new stories written by some of the most popular writers of historical mysteries brings to life the glorious and nefarious world that for nearly a thousand years—from the founding of the Republic in 510 B.C. to the deposing of the last emperor, Romulus, in 476 A.D.—was ancient Rome. Events from the turbulent reigns of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Caligula, and Nero provide the colorful background to tales ingeniously contrived by contributors like Paul Doherty, Gillian Bradshaw, and Richard Butler. While John Maddox Roberts offers a new SPQR story, Steven Saylor, Marilyn Todd, Rosemary Rowe, Darrell Schweitzer, and Michael Kurland challenge their sleuths Gordianus the Finder, Claudia, Libertus, Pliny the Younger, and Quintilian with baffling new cases. Mary Reed and Eric Mayer conjure new intrigue for John the Eunuch, and Peter Tremayne sends his Fidelma on the trail of a Roman legion lost in Ireland. In addition to the original stories specially commissioned for this volume, this book also includes such rare reprints as a Slave Detective story by Wallace Nichols and one of the earliest historical mysteries to be set in Rome, "De Crimine" by Miriam Allen de Ford. which features Cicero as the investigator.

About this title

About the Author:

Mike Ashley is author and editor of many Mammoth titles including crime-fiction collections such as the Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries, the Mammoth Book of Ancient Egyptian Whodunnits and the Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Running Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786712414
• ISBN 13: 9780786712410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526
• Editor: Mike Ashley