(1) Author's website: None.
John Maddox Roberts, who writes the Falcon adventure series under the
pen name of Mark Ramsay, is also the author of a large number of
science fiction and fantasy novels.
(2) The SPQR mysteries feature
Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, head of a civil detective force
in ancient Rome. SPQR is the latin abbreviation for Senatus Populusque
Romanus ("The Senate and People of Rome").