An artist and writer, Albert Noyer was born in Switzerland but raised in Detroit, Michigan. After Army service, he pursued degrees in art, art edu-cation, and teaching humanities, at Wayne State University. He subsequently worked as a commercial artist, taught art in a Detroit Public Schools tech-nical/vocational program, and art history at a private college. Noyer retired to New Mexico with his wife, Jennifer, where he exhibits watercolor paint-ings and woodcut prints in galleries and regional exhibits. His artwork has been featured New Mexico Magazine and the Mature Life in New Mexico supplement of Albuquerque's Sunday Journal. He is a member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, SouthWest Writers, Sisters in Crime, Croak & Dagger, and New Mexico Veteran's Art. Noyer first published A.D. fifth century novels, the Getorius and Arcadia Mysteries, set in an era now seen as critical in creating the political, religious,and cultural institutions that survive into modern times.The Secundus Papyrusand The Cybelene Conspiracy are Amazon Encore publications; Death at Pergamum is on Kindle, with Unholy Sepulcher forthcoming (March 2014).Published by Plain View Press, his contemporary Fr. Jake Mysteries, The Ghosts of Glorieta and One for the Money, Two for the Sluice, are set in Mich-igan and New Mexico. Alberix the Celt is the retelling in two volumes of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul, but from the viewpoint of a Celtic youth caught up in the Romanization of the country now called France (April 2014).