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Roman Blood 1991

History, Gordianus the Finder (Fictitious character), Historical fiction, Fiction

Gordianus the Finder is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused of murdering his own father.

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Cool, plot-driven, classical in form and resolved.

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“THE slave who came to fetch me on that unseasonably warm spring morning was a young man, hardly more than twenty.”

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