Biblioteca de ideas

A scribe in the imperial chancery in Rome 193 CE discovers someone is forging signatures on edicts — in the Year of the Five Emperors

A young Italian woman in 1527 Venice inherits a key to an unknown door — her late husband never mentioned it

A junior officer in Napoleon's army at Austerlitz gets orders contradicting the previous ones — and can't tell which ones come from real HQ

A Victorian-London maid finds among her mistress's belongings a letter signed with her own name — dated two years in the future

A schoolgirl in Petrograd, autumn 1917, sees her math teacher hand a book to a stranger at the train station — a week later the teacher disappears