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Gordianus the Finder is a private investigator living at the end of the Republic. The stories begin around 80 BC.The series is discussed in "John Maddox Roberts and Steven Saylor: Detecting in the Final Decades of the Roman Republic" by Terrance L. Lewis in: The Detective as Historian ed. by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. (Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University, 2000), pp. 22-31.

The Courtney series can be split into three parts, each part following a particular era of the Courtney family. In chronological order it goes the Third Sequence, First Sequence, then the Second Sequence. However this is a slight generalization, so in fact the book sequence is: 1.Birds of Prey 1660s 2.Monsoon 1690s 3.Blue Horizon 1730s 4.When the Lion Feeds 1860s-1890s 5.Triumph of the Sun 1880s 6.The Sound of Thunder 1899-1906 7.Assegai 1906-1918 8.The Burning Shore 1917-1920 9.A Sparrow Falls 1918-1925 10.Power of the Sword 1931-1948 11.Rage 1950s and 1960s 12.Golden Fox 1969-1979 13.A Time To Die 1987