Gordianus mines his knowledge of botany, history and human psyches to ferret out the solution. When the new owner dies unexpectedly, his widow is sure that the ghost will kill her next. In "The Lemures," a wealthy couple's home, previously owned by an executed political enemy, is haunted by the dead man's ghost. In the crowded streets of late-Republic Rome, the rich and the poor, the living and the dead occupy close quarters. The first of Saylor's short story collections featuring Gordianus the Finder Publishers WeeklyĪfter five novels in the Roma Sub Rosa series (A Murder on the Appian Way, 1996), Saylor fills the time frame between the first two books-80 to 72 B.C.- with this first collection of short stories featuring series sleuth Gordianus the Finder. Synopsis of The House of the Vestals: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder (Roma Sub Rosa Series #6)
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