false 3186824 2 <b>One week to solve a murder.</b> <P> Londinium, 83 AD. Vibius Maecenas, spy for Emperor Domitian, lies on an underground altar ... his throat slit to the spinal chord. <P> <b>One week to stop a civil war.</b> <P> Arcturus, the governor's doctor and sometime investigator, must find out who butchered him--and why--before Agricola and all of Britannia are plunged into civil war with Rome. He'd also like to know where the blonde fits in ... <P> <b>Welcome to Roman Noir.</b> <P> NOX DORMIENDA is the first of a new series in a new genre: Roman Noir. Featuring Arcturus, a hardboiled protagonist in the best Philip Marlowe tradition, NOX is a different kind of historical mystery, a suspense thriller that combines a classic noir style with the rich texture of the ancient past. 3219735 18 7 2008 Nox Dormienda:: A Long Night for Sleeping (An Arcturus Mystery) total:28|5:11|4:5|3:11|2:1|1:0| 28 110 44 11 5 1 false false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 16:12:31 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 16:13:58 -0800 2008
Author Kelli Stanley has a Classics education and an astonishingly wide range of interests and achievements. It's our good luck that one of her interests is noir fiction, or in this case the "roman noir," a nice little pun describing her ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 27 21:42:38 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 21:44:35 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:17:16 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 13:42:38 -0800 2009 David Wishart's Corvinus series irritates me a bit. They all seem too modern in tone to me. I love Steven Saylor and John Maddox Roberts, an...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 14:31:43 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 14:33:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 11:11:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 11:12:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 11:34:37 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 15:18:13 -0700 2008
Welcome to Kelli Stanley's world of Roman noir. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 09 07:57:35 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 20:28:04 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 07:57:35 -0700 2009
My only quibble would be that although Ms Stanley is a classicist, most of her readers are not. It would have been nice to have had context...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 23 18:44:21 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 29 17:40:15 -0700 2009 Lindsey Davis fans with this first outing - solidly researched and well-plotted, if not especially creative beyond the novelty of out-of-period noir.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 27 18:00:13 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 18:02:20 -0700 2008
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