[Marcus Didius Falco 03] • Venus in Copper
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- Authors
- Davis, Lindsey
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Tags
- mystery & detective , mystery , historical , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780312647285
- Date
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.33 MB
- Lang
- en
Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his *mother* is a slight indignity...
Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And, all the while, trying to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorius instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, this Lindsey Davis' classic tale *Venus in Copper* shows Falco at his very finest.