A review by djrmelvin
A Gladiator Dies Only Once: The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder by Steven Saylor

3.0

Another collection of short stories featuring Gordianus the Finder, Saylor's last century BC private investigator. There's more mystery in this collection and less character, something that works fine if you've read the other stories. With one exception, these are well done historical fiction, that is, stories that put you effortlessly in a place and time. The exception is the title story, which reads more like the kind of historical fiction they use to trick elementary kids into learning something than adult reading. The reasons those stories don't work on kids is because no one likes to be lectured, and that's exactly how all the information Saylor has gathered about Gladiators comes across. A lecture shoehorned into a very easy to solve murder case. Other than that one story - it's a good read.