Murder and Mischief: Three Short Stories will introduce mystery readers to historian and writer, Brian Samuels. Samuels, who teaches at (fictional) Guilford University in a small, southern Indiana town, has honed his detective skills by solving a number of puzzling cases -- all of them a couple of millennia ago. His alter ego is Gaius Chrysanthus Capito, a toga-wearing, sandal-shod private detective treading the well-worn cobblestones of ancient Rome. So it's up to the professor to bring Gaius' skills up to date, something he occasionally needs to remind his modern-day colleagues -- and friends in the Guilford, Indiana, police department, who are likely to seek out his opinion. Fortunately, murder and mischief aren't all that common in small-town southern Indiana. Or are they? These three stories test that notion.
