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Last updated VII NOVEMBRIS 2005.
Jean d'Aillion
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Attentat à Aquae-Sextiae
(Aix-en-Provence: Jean-Louis Roos, 2000).
In Aquae Sextae (today's Aix-en-Provence)
during the reign of Augustus, army veteran Lucius Gallus
investigates a number of strange goings-on including a former
colleague who turns up on the slave market, why he fetches such
a high price, what is behind the reconstruction of a prominent temple,
a disappearance and the identity of a mysterious vistor.
Cover features a provocative illustration.
[not available for review]
Philippe Andrieux
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Mysteria. Menace sur le gladiateur
(Bayard, 1999).
The four young Romans come to assistance of their friend, Vinctrix,
a gladiator who is being doped by the Guard.
[not available for review]
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Mysteria. Passagers clandestins
(Bayard, 1999).
When Bakyrès, the fish merchant, disappears his son
and his friends initiate a search which carries them to Ostia.
To whom belongs the Greek boat anchored in the port?
[not available for review]
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Mysteria. Sabotage sur le Tibre
(Bayard, 1999).
Delivering fish to the wealthy Flavius,
Akis and his father discover that he has
been just assassinated! Akeops, the intendant of the villa,
is accused. Who killed Flavius? Who sabotaged
the boat on the Tiber? Akis and its friends carry out the
investigation.
[not available for review]
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Mysteria. Le Secret du Domaine
(Bayard, 2000).
Brigands seize the cart of the four friends in Rome.
Travelling acrobats help the friends to find it.
[not available for review]
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Mysteria. Trahir ou mourir?
(Bayard, 1999).
During a Roman bread riot, Marcus finds himself hostage of
the rebellious Rufus, planning a terrible plot on the emperor.
[not available for review]
Anonymous
- La Course de l'espoir, numéro 909
(Bayard, 2000).
If he does not reimburse his debts, Bakyrès, father of Akis, risks
having to sell himself as a slave. On the advice of Atropos, a specialist on horses,
he decides to play the races. But the team loses and he is ruined.
Akis and its friends are convinced that Atropos is a
crook who fixed the race. But, to save Bakyrès,
they must absolutely prove it ...
[not available for review]
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L'Incendiaire de Rome, numéro 902
(Bayard, 1999).
The four friends come to the aid of the vigiles during a fire. Titus
is surprised to find a knife near a corpse
and is accused of murder. He flees leaving
his companions to prove his innocence.
[not available for review]
Lindsey Davis
Joe Hoestland
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Le cahier d'amour
(La Crêche, 2000).
Marcus witnesses a crime in the baths where he works.
Threatened by the murderer, he and his friends discover
that the same man is in the company of thieves who have
recently committed a famous robbery. The four friends
investigate.
[not available for review]
Anne de Leseleuc
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Calendes de Septembre, Les
(Paris: UGE, 1995). Set in the capital. When a legate sent to overrule
a tax revolt in Illyria is murdered, Marcus Aper investigates.
Fourth in the series.
[not available for review]
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Marcus Aper chez les Rutènes
(Paris: UGE, 1993).
When a potter's daughter dies, Marcus Aper must
investigate. Interesting look at a thriving
ancient industry. Second in the series.
[not available for review]
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Marcus Aper et Laureolus
(Paris: UGE, 1994). Set in Arausio (modern Orange),
in the Roman theater. ("Laureolus" was the title of
a Roman play.)
Third in the series. [not available for review]
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Trésor de Boudicca, Le
(Paris: UGE, 1997).
Marcus Aper arrives in Britain to investigate the assassination
of the wife of the Roman procurator and the disappearance of
Boudicca's treasury.
Fifth in the series. [not available for review]
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Vacances de Marcus Aper, Les
(Paris: UGE, 1992).
Marcus Aper is a famous lawyer from Gaul working in Rome. During
the holidays, he returns to Lugdunum (Lyon) to visit his old
friend Quintus Solem, only to discover a corpse. Features a good
portrait of everyday life in Gaul. Includes a 10-12 page
outline of the history of Gaul from pre-Roman times onwards.
First in the series. [***]
Nino Marino
Alain Nadaud
- Auguste fulminant
(Paris : Librairie générale française, 1999).
A modern investigation into the death of the poet Vergil.
Did Augustus have something against
The Aeneid?
[not available for review]
Jean-Pierre Nèraudau
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Mystère du Jardin Romain, Le
(Paris: Les belles lettres, 1992).
In Rome of Tiberius in 24 AD, the
mutilated corpse of Marcus Plautius' wife found in their
domestic garden gives rise to speculation. Was it an accident?
Suicide? Murder? An anonymous manuscript confirms the worst.
[***]
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Le Prince posthume, suivi de "Les fils d'Arachné"
(Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2000).
Consists of two mysteries actually, the first concerning the
story of Agrippa Postumus, a topic already considered by Graves.
Also included is a mystery in which the action takes place during a
present day symposium on Agrippa Postumus where the relationships between the
participants resemble those of the characters in the first.
[not available for review]
John Maddox Roberts
Stéphanie de La Rochefoucauld
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Le mystère de Pompéi
(Paris: Éd. 1, 2001).
The famous painter Labius leaves Rome for Pompeill in 64 AD,
fifteen years before the famous eruption, with the goal of painting
some frescoes for a famous r esident. In the process he gets to
know the beautiful Romula Popidia, until murder erupts.
[not yet rated]
Steven Saylor
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L'Etreinte de Nemesis
(Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1997), originally published in English as
Arms of Nemesis.
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L'énigme de Catilina
(Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1997, translated by Denis-Armand Canal),
originally published in English as
Catilina's Riddle.
- Meurtre sur la voie Appia
(Paris: Editions 10/18, 2002), originally published in English as
A Murder on the Appian
Way.
- Le Rocher du Sacrifice
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2002),
originally published in English as
Last Seen in Massilia.
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Du Sang sur Rome
(Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1997;
Club France Loisirs, 1998),
originally published in English as
Roman Blood.
- Rubicon
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2001),
originally published in English as
Rubicon.
- Un Egyptien dans la Ville
(Paris: Editions Ramsay, 1998),
originally published in English as
The Venus Throw.
Maria Visconti
- Le Cheval d'octobre
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2000).
A political crime in Gaul during the reign of Vespasian
inspires the lawyer Helkias to make inquiries.
Title refers to the festival of the
"October Horse".
Second in the series.
[not available for review]
- Le Masque de l'attelane
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 1999).
Helkias, friend of the future emperor Titus, is a new detective.
First in the series.
[not available for review]
- L'Epée de cendres
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2002).
Third in the series.
[not available for review]
- Le Meurtre d'Adonis
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2001).
A friend asks Helkias to locate an effigy of Adonis which has gone missing.
Then he receives a missive from Titus, son of Emperor Vespasian, charging him
with a secret mission.
Fourth in the series.
[not available for review]
- La porte d'ivoire
(Paris: Champs-Elysées, 2003).
Emperor Titus commissions Helkias to look into a premonitory dream of an
assassination. Helkias finds himself in the middle of Egypt province and
its papyrus trade.
Fifth in the series.
[not available for review]
Patrick Weber
- Des ombres sur Alexandrie
(Paris: 2000).
Fatal intrigues intersect around Cleopatra, the
ambitious queen who has just given birth to the son of Caesar.
[not available for review]
Henry Winterfeld
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