Bruce Macbain
Homer & Langley
For a review suited to this journal, it is well to begin by pointing out that the novel is not,…
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Editors' choice
“In 1914, at the age of eight years, I was caught spying on my father Prince Su as he made…
Cleopatra’s Daughter
In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene,…
Roman Diary
The subtitle of this illustrated children’s book is “The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Who Was Captured and Sold as…
The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln
Originally published in 1979 and now reissued to coincide with the Lincoln bicentennial, the novel purports to be a manuscript…
Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
The study of women in antiquity has already seen a great deal of important scholarship. In this book, the author…
SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead
In this, the twelfth of Roberts’ Roman mystery series featuring his sleuth Decius Caecilius Metellus, Italy is on the brink…
Wobble to Death
It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at…
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
The second of Peter Lovesey’s Victorian mysteries (now reissued) plunges Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackery into the underworld of bare-knuckled…
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