With dramatic settings ranging from the Eternal City of Rome to the most remote outposts of her empire, here are new tales from masters of the historical detective story, with classic gems and rare reprints - plus a special introduction, and a new Gordianus the Finder novella from Steven Saylor.

Edited by Mike Ashley.

Contents:

• Copyright and acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Long Reach of Rome by Steven Saylor
• Never Forget by Tom Holt
• A Gladiator Dies Only Once by Steven Saylor
• The Hostage to Fortune by Michael Jecks
• De Crimine by Miriam Allen deFord
• The Will by John Maddox Roberts
• Honey Moon by Marilyn Todd
• Damnum Fatale by Philip Boast
• Heads You Lose by Simon Scarrow
• Great Caesar's Ghost by Michael Kurland
• The Cleopatra Game by Jane Finnis
• Bread and Circuses by Caroline Lawrence
• The Missing Centurion by Anonymous
• Some Unpublished Correspondence of the Younger Pliny by Darrell Schweitzer
• A Golden Opportunity by Jean Davidson
• Caveat Emptor by Rosemary Rowe
• Sunshine and Shadow by R.H. Stewart
• The Case of his Own Abduction by Wallace Nichols
• The Malice of Anicii by Gillian Bradshaw
• The Finger of Aphrodite by Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
• The Lost Eagle by Peter Tremayne