How do you say goodbye to a much-loved character? Fans of Steven Saylor’s ancient Roman mysteries will be sad to learn that this is the end for Gordianus the Finder, the private detective hero of the “Roma sub Rosa” series. For more than 20 years, through 13 novels and two volumes of short stories, Saylor has woven Gordianus’s exploits into a colourful tapestry of real historical events. Now, with The Throne of Caesar, the 14th novel in the series, the door is gently closing on one of crime fiction’s most likeable creations.
Gordianus has lived through the most popular era in Roman history and interacted with such real-life giants as Cicero, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Cleopatra, while solving a marvellous variety of