Murder in Tarsis: Classics Series
 Pretty painful reading: I tried my hardest to ignore the bad reviews here on this book...but it was pretty bad. I felt like I was reading a scooby doo book. Especially towards the end when they almost literally pull a mask off of someone. I guess I [... more]
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SPQR II Catiline Conspiracy SPQR II
Great Roman-era mystery finally back in print!: At long last, SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy is back in print--in a nice trade paperback edition. (The original release, from about a decade ago was a pocket-sized mass-market edition, with a rather tacky [... more]
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SPQR I: The King's Gambit
Flimsy stuff: This series is pretty lightweight. You don't feel that you've visited ancient Rome -- the city doesn't come alive, the people do not behave as we expect, e.g. Milo, Cicero, Cato, to behave. The scenary feels like cardboard, and it is hard [... more]
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Echec au senat
Author: Roberts John Maddox Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 818'.54 EAN: 9782264039255 ISBN: 2264039256 Number Of Pages: 283 Publication Date: 2005-06-23 [... more]
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SPQR VIII The River God's Vengeance
Preachy: This is a good book but the ending isn't done well.He preaches the virtues of good and justice to the villain when he should be running for his life.This preaching goes on far too long. Great fun. Fascinating historical mystery: Roman tenement [... more]
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SPQR III The Scrilege
How convincingly realistic: Decius Caecilius Metellus, scion of an old and noble Roman family, and a snooper with the best of them, is now a Senator. That only means he now can pry more easily into matters that bring him to the really dangerous attention [... more]
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Sacrilège à Rome
Author: Roberts John Maddox Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 818'.54 EAN: 9782264039262 ISBN: 2264039264 Number Of Pages: 286 Publication Date: 2006-02-02 [... more]
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SPQR XI Under Vesuvius: A Mystery
Author: John Maddox Roberts Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312370886 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 0312370881 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2007-12-10 [... more]
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SPQR X A Point In Law: A Mystery
Author: John Maddox Roberts Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312337254 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 0312337256 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2006-05-16 [... more]
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SPQR IX The Princess and The Pirates
Author: John Maddox Roberts Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312337247 Edition: 1st edition ISBN: 0312337248 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2006-02-01 [... more]
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SPQR VI Nobody Loves a Centurion
Welcome back, Caecilius Metellus: A top-notch mystery and an informative historical novel, Roberts' sixth volume in the SPQR series is satisfying on all counts. As always, the breezy manner but core seriousness of our narrator and sleuth, Decius [... more]
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Hannibals Children
From Amazon.com: John Maddox Roberts's alternative history Hannibal's Children is an interesting expedition to answer the question "What if Hannibal of Carthage had succeeded in his bid to conquer Rome during the second Punic War?" Roberts, [... more]
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