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Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is a member of a large and powerful noble plebeian family in Rome. He is something of a black sheep, especially in the eyes of his generally disapproving father, DCM the Elder. Born in the early 90s BCE (dates are a bit approximate), he lives through the turbulent years of the ending of the republic and into the age of Augustus.The stories are written as memoirs towards the end of his long life. Cynical though he often is, Decius Caecilius also has a certain irrepressible cheer. He loves his position, his city and his comforts, but he is up to almost anything.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.My apologies to people in cases where I have changed the name that you put in Common Knowledge, but some of these people were in under multiple names, e.g. four variations on Julia, the name of Decius's wife, and I have tried to combine them under a name that was correct yet distinctive.  I haven't decided what to do with her uncle, since most of the books in Librarything are under "Julius Caesar," which I think is wrong.Wikipedia page SPQR series (English, Unclassified)