Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
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In Rome in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog--and why.
During Saturnalia, Flavia Gemina must perform twelve tasks to learn why a wealthy widow is interested in her father.
"On their way back to Ostia from North Africa, the Roman merchant ship carrying Flavia and her friends is wrecked and one of the four detectives goes missing. A desperate quest takes the others to the Romano-Egyptian port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, the Library ...
An extension of The Roman Mysteries brand, featuring an irresistible new hero, Threptus, who helps solve the mystery of a house haunted by a demon!
The four detectives try to find a missing racehorse in time for events at the Circus Maximus.
When Jonathan goes missing soon after his birthday celebration, his friends, Flavia Gemina, Nubia, and Lupus, track him to Rome. Has he been abducted or is he on a quest? Their search takes them to the Circus Maximus, the Palantine Hill and finally the Golden House of the Emper...
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus and Nubia to a seaside villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.
At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.
An imperial messenger summons Jonathan's father to Rome, where a fever which started in Ostia threatens to become a plague. Jonathan and his three friends go too and need all their skills to solve a mystery for the Emperor Titus.
"Aesop's Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a slave; a man who lived 600 years before Christ. They were written down by a Greek, and then a Roman, and they spread, like the armies of Rome, across the known world. They were told around heathen cam...
Emperor Titus sends Flavia and her friends on a mission to find a precious gem called "Nero's Eye".
Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
In 1862 Nevada Territory, after finding his foster parents murdered and scalped, twelve-year-old Pinky Pinkerton, son of a railroad detective and a Sioux Indian, inherits a valuable deed and must hide from dangerous Whittlin Walt and his gang of desperados.