In “The Dagger”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Phoebe and Professor Jason go to The Pegasus, a sleazy waterfront inn, to...

“The Dagger”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, features Phoebe, eager to solve the murder of a retired gladiator whose throat was...

In The Deadliest Lie, the first book in the Miriam bat Isaac Series, Miriam explains how she became interested in alchemy: When I first...

Pepper, which was imported from India along with ginger and cinnamon, was once a luxury product. But in Miriam’s time, with accumulating...

Cicero, who was considered a jokester, explained that humor is based on “ambiguity, the unexpected, wordplay, understatement, irony,...

We get the word perfume from the Romans. In Latin, per fumum means through smoke. Though it had been used in religious rituals, perfume...

If asked to think of a single individual who epitomizes the decadence, destruction, and debauchery of Ancient Rome, the name Nero would...

The Miriam bat Isaac stories in The Deadliest Deceptions take place during the reign of Nero, the fifth emperor of Rome. So, while Miriam...

In “The Brothers”, a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, Miriam meets the brother hired to work in Bion’s bookshop: Rare for me, I had to...

After the washing is done and the material soaks well, the fabric is rinsed. This step is done with the help of clean water in a complex...