>> I've just started Steven Saylor's ROMAN
 > BLOOD,
 >>     another Roman PI series, set around 80 B.C. It's the
 > first one I've
 >>     read in this series.  I enjoyed the "Falco" series
 > by Davies(?), so
 >>     I thought I would give this one try.
 >
 > Davies plays Falco for laughs. Saylor is mostly serious.
 > The
 > third author you ought to look for is Maddox Roberts (or
 > Robert
 > Maddox, or something). I haven't seen anything from him
 > in a
 > couple of years and my MBS says they haven't either, but
 > he had
 > the first series, and in some ways the best. It's also more
 > on
 > the serious mystery rather than humorous.
 
John Maddox Roberts.  I've seen 4 books so far in the SPQR series. 
 I've heard rumors of a fifth volume in hardcover, but have never 
laid eyes on one.
 
His most recent work has been some Conan novels, published by Tor Books.  I 
believe he also participated in the mystery series done in the Forgotten 
Realms universe (and why those were published in hardcover, I'll never 
understand....)
 
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