Marcus Didius Falco #12
Mysterious Press
September 2002
Featuring: Marcus Didius Falco; Helena Justina
384 pages ISBN: 0446679062 EAN: 9780446679060 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
Lindsey Davis is the internationally bestselling author
who "Makes Rome Live" (Washington Post Book World).
Funny, astute, and hardboiled, her series detective, Marcus
Didius Falco, now ventures into a new arena, the publishing
world of A.D. 74, to prove that ars longa, vita brevis—and
murder is timeless.
ODE TO A BANKER
Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a
public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives
an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a
beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for
putting the verse on papyrus. Hell hath no fury like an
author scorned, and when Chrysippus turns up murdered in
the library, no less, it's poetic justice. Appointed the
official investigator, Falco's soon up to his stylus in
outraged writers and shifty bankers. Now it's time to
employ his real talents: deducing the killer from an
assembly of suspects...in a classic whodunit that is
Lindsey Davis's most satisfying mystery yet.
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