The Mammoth Book Of Roman Whodunnits - Plot & Excerpts
Vespasian was a no-nonsense man, not one who felt comfortable with all the trappings of high rank. His sons Titus and, especially, Domitian were far more smitten with the imperial life. The following story features the great orator Quintilian, who lived from about AD 34 to AD 95. In later years he became the tutor of Pliny the Younger who appears in a later story. Michael Kurland has established a solid reputation in the fields of science fiction, crime fiction and rock music – he edited the music paper Crawdaddy for some years. He has also written a short detective series set in the 1930s starting with Too Soon Dead (1997) as well as the useful guides How to Solve a Murder (1995) and How to Try a Murder (1997). His earlier story about Quintilian, “Blind Justice”, will be found in my anthology The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits. It was on the Nones of September in the second year of the reign of Emperor Vespasian, many years ago now, that our involvement in the events that I am recounting here began.
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