Gordianus The Finder Omnibus (Books 1-4)

BOOK: Gordianus The Finder Omnibus (Books 1-4)
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Steven Saylor
is best known as the author of the Roma sub Rosa series set in ancient Rome and featuring Gordianus the Finder. His work has been widely praised for its remarkable accuracy and vivid historical detail as well as for its passion, mystery and intrigue.

 

Steven divides his time between Berkeley, California, and Austin, Texas. His web address is
www.stevensaylor.com
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Praise for the Roma sub Rosa series

 

‘How wonderful to have a scholar write about ancient Rome; how comforting to feel instant confidence in the historical accuracy of the novel.’

Sunday Times

 

‘Saylor has acquired the information of a historian but he enjoys the gifts of a born novelist.’

Boston Globe

 

‘Saylor evokes the ancient world more convincingly than any other writer of his generation.’

Sunday Times

 

‘Saylor’s scholoarship is breathtaking and his writing enthrals.’

Ruth Rendell

 

Gordianus the Finder Omnibus

 

CATILINA’S RIDDLE

 

THE VENUS THROW

 

A MURDER ON THE APPIAN WAY

 

RUBICON

 

LAST SEEN IN MASSILIA

 

A MIST OF PROPHECIES

 

THE JUDGEMENT OF CEASAR

 

THE TRIUMPH OF CEASAR

 

GORDIANUS THE
FINDER OMNIBUS

 

STEVEN SAYLOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

Constable & Robinson Ltd
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London WC1B 4HP

 

www.constablerobinson.com

 

Roman Blood
First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing Ltd 1997
This paperback edition published by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005
Copyright © Steven Saylor 1997

 

House of Vestals
First Published in the USA by St Martins Press 1999
First Published in the UK by Robinson Publishing Ltd 1999
This paperback edition published by Robinson
And imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005
Copyright © Steven Saylor 1999, 2005

 

A Gladiator Dies Only Once
First published in the USA by St Martin’s Press 2005
First published in the UK by Constable,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005
This paperback edition published by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2006
Copyright © Steven Saylor 2005, 2006
The author’s moral right has been asserted.

 

Arms of Nemesis
First published in the UK by Robinson Publishing Ltd 1997
This paperback edition published by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005
Copyright © Steven Saylor 1997

 

The right of Steven Saylor to be identified as
the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

 

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication
Data is available from the British Library.

 

ISBN: 9781780339771

 

Printed and bounded in the EU

 

CONTENTS

 

Roman Blood

Dedication

Part One       High and Low

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

Part Two       Portents

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

XX

XXI

XXII

XXIII

XXIV

XXV

XXVI

Part Three      Justice

XXVII

XXVIII

XXIX

XXX

XXXI

XXXII

XXXIII

XXXIV

Author’s Note

 

 

 

House of Vestals

 

Dedication

Foreword

Death Wears a Mask

The Tale of the Treasure House

A Will is a Way

The Lemures

Little Ceaser and Pirates

The Disappearance of the Saturnalia Silver

King Bee and Honey

The Alexandrian Cat

The House of the Vestals

The Life and Times of the Gordianus the Finder:
     A Partial Chronology

Historical Notes

 

 

 

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

 

Dedication

Preface

The Consul’s Wife

If a Cyclops Could Vanish in the Blink of an Eye

The White Fawn

Something Fishy in Pompeii

Archimedes’ Tomb

Death by Eros

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

Poppy and the Poisoned Cake

The Cherries of Lucullus

The Life and Times of the Gordianus the Finder:
     A Partial Chronology

Historical Notes

 

 

 

Arms of Nemesis

 

Dedication

Part One  Corpses Living and Dead

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Part Two    The Jaws of Hades

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

Part Three   Death in a Cup

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

XIX

Part Four   Funeral Games

XX

XXI

XXII

XXIII

XXIV

XXV

Epilogue

Author’s Notes

ROMAN BLOOD

A MYSTERY OF ANCIENT ROME

 

 

Steven Saylor

 

ROBINSON

London

 

 

 

 

To Rick Solomon, this book:
auspicium melioris aevi

 

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