The Venus Throw - first US edition

by Steven Saylor - signed   

The fifth novel, chronologically, in the "Roma Sub Rosa" series about Gordianus the Finder, a detective in first century BC Republican Rome. Investigation of the murder of Dio, Egyptian ambassador seeking the overthrow of Cleopatra's brother as Pharaoh of Egypt; 56BC. 308 pages.  I personally collected the author's signature at an appearance in Portland, OR in Oct, 1999.