Marcus Didius Falco #15
Mysterious Press
October 2004
Featuring: Marcus Didius Falco; Helena Justina
384 pages ISBN: 0446693294 EAN: 9780446693295 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
"Sam Spade in a toga," proclaims the Cleveland Plain Dealer of Lindsey Davis's Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. Here in this riveting new adventure, Falco enters the halls of Roman law and finds that juris prudentia is anything but prudent. It's rife with risk and deadly betrayals...
THE ACCUSERS
Newly returned from far-flung Londinium and in need of work, Marcus Didius Falco agrees to look into the death of Rubirius Metellus. Convicted of corruption, the rich senator committed suicide-and in doing so, relieved his family of paying his debts. Now Metellus's accusers stand to collect a large fee for a successful prosecution and Falco starts to suspect that the senator may have had some help with his last meal. If he actually was murdered, Falco must find out cui bono: Who benefits? Soon, in a courtroom drama filled with chilling surprises, the sleuth must argue the case and engage in a most dangerous game. For while the wheels of justice grind exceedingly fine, the machinations of the powerful can be downright lethal. And Falco may have played right into their hands...