Ancient Rome and medieval England both produce detectives and the two eras read nothing alike

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Starting with the Roman ones is the wrong way into historical mysteries and everybody does it Series that age in real time versus historical mysteries frozen in one decade Getting the money right matters more than getting the clothes right in a historical mystery Historical mysteries keep inventing royal and clerical detectives because ordinary people had no access to power How much anachronism can a historical mystery get away with before the illusion breaks? Why do readers keep coming back to historical mysteries when they already know how the period ends? Most readers say they read historical mysteries for the history and then skip the history What makes a period setting in a historical mystery feel researched rather than dressed up? A Victorian sleuth cannot dust for prints so every historical mystery has to solve crime by testimony Amateur sleuth stories are really about class: who gets listened to when they ask questions