Marcus Didius Falco #11
Mysterious Press
July 2001
Featuring: Marcus Didius Falco; Helena Justina
368 pages ISBN: 0446677698 EAN: 9780446677691 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
International bestselling author Lindsey Davis has done in
the mystery genre what Caesar did in Gaul: came, saw, and
conquered! Her innovative series put hardboiled detective
Marcus Didius Falco, "the Sam Spade of ancient Rome"
(Publishers Weekly), on the mean streets of the
Eternal City. Now Davis returns to A.D. 74 with a riveting
investigation into a missing child...
ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY
Men are fools for love. And that includes Marcus Didius
Falco. To please his beloved, the tough shamus has become
Procurer of the Sacred Poultry—i.e., babysitter of the
temple geese. It's steady work, good pay. But Falco is soon
restless and when a beautiful child, chosen to enter the
secret order of Vestal Virgins, disappears, he grabs the
case. He quickly discovers that greed and religious fervor
are only a thread away from madness. And a little girl's
life may be cut short, not by Clotho, Lachesis, and
Atropos, but by a sinister human hand-unless Falco finds
her in time...