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The Roman Gumsandal Strikes Again Hurrah! "Ruso and the Demented Doctor" is even better than "Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls", the first of R S Downie's army surgeon detective adventures set in Roman Britain. Ruso and Tilla, now his housekeeper, accompany a detachment of the Twentieth Legion from Deva (Chester) to Coria (Corbridge), a fort on the northern frontier near Tilla's tribal lands. Trouble naturally awaits: a Roman soldier has been murdered and the fort's doctor confesses (but he's as mad as a bucket of frogs). Meanwhile,... more info
Good Fun for Fans of All Things Roman Beware, this book is also published under the title TERRA INCOGNITA. After all the confusion with the first book, masquerading under two titles and a change of front cover, which fooled me into buying two copies of the same book, I was unsure whether to put any of my hard earned cash down on this one, but all things being equal the first book was an enjoyable read in the same vein as Lindsey Davis or Steven Saylor, so why cut off my nose to spite my face. This is the second novel in the Medicus... more info
