Dog-Headed Death: A Gaius Hesperian Mystery

Gaius Hesperian #1

by Ray Faraday Nelson

Meet Centurion Gaius Hesperian; a reflective and compassionate member of Emperor Nero’s palace guard with a knack for detective work. (He’s considered rather odd by his fellow officers because he doesn’t torture witnesses.) When Odysseus Memnon, a Greek-Egyptian shipping magnate, is found murdered in his Alexandrian mansion after annoucing his conversion to an evangelistic cult to which he plans to donate all of his worldly goods, it's up to Gaius Hesperian to solve the crime.

Genres: Mystery

184 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1989

About the author

Aka Jeffrey Lord (house pseudonym)

Radell Faraday "Ray" Nelson is an American science fiction author and cartoonist most famous for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which was later used by John Carpenter as the basis for his 1988 film They Live.

Reviews

[Peter M.]

Ancient CSI! I loved it

I really liked how the narrative split between the perspectives of the characters. I also loved how descriptive everything was