Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls [Import] [Paperback]

R. S. Downie (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin; Open market e. edition (December 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141031123
• ISBN-13: 978-0141031125
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Ruth (RS) Downie graduated from university with an English degree and a plan to get married and live happily ever after. She is still working on it. In the meantime she is also the New York Times bestselling author of a mystery series featuring Roman doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso.

The four books currently available are:

Medicus (published as 'Medicus/Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls' in the UK and Australia)

Terra Incognita ('Ruso and the Demented Doctor')

Persona non Grata ('Ruso and the Root of All Evils')

Caveat Emptor ('Ruso and the River of Darkness')

Ruth is not the RS Downie who writes real medical textbooks. Absolutely none of the medical advice in the Ruso books should be followed. Roman and Greek doctors were very wise about many things but they were also known to prescribe donkey dung and boiled cockroaches.

Find out more at www.ruthdownie.com

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbed By History, July 12, 2011

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This review is from: Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Paperback)

I became totally absorbed in the lives and troubles of a cross section of civilizations in flux. Each influencing the others. Each being the only right way to live. Each destroying/modifying the other. Characters so believable that you can't help reacting to them. The prejudices of the conquerors haven't changed over eons and neither has war propaganda. Love the everyday lives of ancient cultures and the relationship between Ruso & Tilla. Crime mysteries are now the modern morality tale.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Medicus arrives in Britiania: confounded by weather, slaves, murders, August 4, 2009

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C. Long (Northamptonshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Paperback)

Downie writes a relaxed paced and humourous (multiple) murder mystery for the first in this series. Ruso, a Roman army doctor after combat experience in Africa, arrives in Britain with a head full of good intentions, a desire to make some money and a book to write. His family worries, a slave trader, a colleague, the hospital administrator, the girls at the local bar and the natives make life more unpredictable and time consuming than he can really deal with in this damp land. His new housekeeper can be both a blessing and a concern. There are some interesting historical facts of Roman surgery gently hidden in here too. Worth finding out how it ends - in this business things are rarely as straight forward as people can be led to believe or as Ruso himself intended.

Note, this is also published as Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire and available as an audio book Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Unabridged)

The next book in the series is Ruso and the Demented Doctor (Medicus Investigations 2)