Roman Justice: SPQR Too Roman To Handle, by Anne Hart, iUniverse. Inc, paperback. ISBN:
0-595-27282-7. Mystery and Suspense Press, iUniverse, Inc., 2003. Also the revised and updated edition of this suspense time-travel novel with a twist is titled,
Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome . ISBN: 0-595-42977-7, ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, inc., 2007. This novel features Quintus Cincinnatus Aemilianus as the private eye in toga who now possesses the
Antikythera device, a mechanism of complicated navigational gears physically representing the Callippic and Saros astronomical cycles, invented by Greeks. Browse the time-travel novel titled,
Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome at the publisher's site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-42977-7.
Quintus believes in proper holistic parenting as an
adventure within a timeless search (through time) to find the perfect nurturing mother. He looks for patterns in nature.
Petronius in
Roman Justice: SPQR: Too Roman to Handle is trying to find his missing father when he encounters Romans too hot to handle and an oncoming war with Carthage he must not enter. Petronius must be elsewhere in time to solve a problem. Petronius in
Roman Justice: SPQR does not yet have that Greek invention, the Antikythera device. Quintis in Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome does have it, but really doesn't need it to time travel with Masinissa and his immortal Numidian cat.
Petronius must be with Cleopatra's daughter and Octavian's sister's daughter in 80BCE rather than on a ship headed from Rome to Carthage in 150 BCE fighting the Punic Wars with Cato's followers as Roman soldiers start to salt the turquoise tile and Carthaginian-Phoenecian earth because Cato's friends don't like the huge sized imported Carthaginian figs that compete with the Roman figs and other competition with Rome. (As in "no-resisto," Petronius must not land in Carthage when there's more urgent problems to solve for the Roman Republic with Armenian prince Vatchekan in the Caucasus mountains and with Cleopatra's daughter, forced by Octavian to marry a Numidian king.
Either book is focused on healing the world by doing good deeds through time travel. One private eye in a toga, Petronius, must solve the mystery before the war with Carthage breaks out and the slave riot overtakes Ancient Rome. He has his hands full. This is another time-travel novel in the author’s popular historical time-travel adventure novel series of youth riding for righteousness, rapport, and repair.
Roman Justice: SPQR--Too Roman to Handle, is about Romans too hot to handle and on the prowl to find missing persons as they find a purpose. When wealthy young men and Cato, the Elder's nephew, disappear and moving forward in time, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony trades places with the daughter of the Roman Emperor, Octavian-Augustus's sister and Marc Antony, one private eye in a toga, Petronius, must solve the mystery before the war with Carthage breaks out and the slave riots overtake Rome.
The praetor says
Petronius’s father has been hired to spy on the Carthaginian prisoner of war slave revolt in Setia, near Rome. What happens when he meets the immortal time traveler, king Masinissa of Numidia and becomes a Roman personal eye, a detective in a toga, with a profound responsibility to do a good deed and tend to
charity while on his way to start a war? Everything has a purpose. Beware of the bite of the cat. It can make you immortal.
Petronius's is to slide beyond merely offering comfort. He also tends to charity and does good deeds. Thus is the life of a proto-detective in a toga, a personal eye, a ransomer and a catalyst for Roman justice. Browse Roman Justice: SPQR: Too Roman to Handle at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-27282-7. Read various articles or links to blogs and videos, including other book excerpts at the historical novelist’s site at http://annehart.tripod.com.