Gordianus the Finder famed detective of Ancient Rome returns in a riveting of stories. Nine tales of murder & intrigue take him from the seamy streets of Rome to elegant villas on the Bay of Naples from the spectacular backdrop of a chariot race to a domestic dispute with his Egyptian concubine Bethesda. In the title story a beautiful Nubian actress begs Gordianus to solve an impossible problem: how can she have just seen her beloved brother in the market place when she had previously watched him die a gruesome death as a gladiator?