"Although historical detective stories are now a flourishing genre, with Steven Saylor and Lindsey Davis being particularly prominent in the field of detective stories set in classical antiquity, back in 1978, when Aristotle Detective was first published, Margaret Doody was something of a pioneer in the genre. Even Ellis Peters had only written the first of the Brother Cadfael series.

It was only because of the popularity of an Italian translation published in 1999, followed by the translation of a short story, that she took up the series again, with five books now under her belt."

Bingley has written several biographies that are on this site and he is now writing book reviews.

Bingley's Reviews of

• The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, The Man Who Discovered Britain
• Aristotle Detective

Bingley has also been blogging on Roman History Books and More. Recently, he posted about mention of a temple outside of Jerusalem that he found in one of the Colleen McCullough historical fiction series on Caesar. In Jewish Temple in Egypt he notes that the temple was founded under Ptolemy Philometor (reigned 181 to 145 B.C.). He also provides links and a PDF for further reading.