A gladiator dies only once - Steven Saylor

Nine new tales of mystery, murder and intrigue take Gordianus

the Finder, detective of Ancient Rome, from the seamy streets

of Rome and elegant villas on the Bay of Naples, to a Sicilian

graveyard and a deadly secret and a bloody battlefield in Spain.

Whether working against the spectacular backdrop of a chariot

race, or settling a domestic dispute with his beautiful Egyptian

concubine, Bethesda, Gordianus is always on the case. Nothing

fazes him even the impossible problem posed in the title story

by a beautiful Nubian actress: how can she have seen her

beloved gladiator brother alive in the marketplace, when she

had earlier witnessed his gruesome death in the arena? A

gladiator dies only once! But nothing is impossible in this

entertaining new collection of short stories in the acclaimed

Roma sub Rosa series.