This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

VENUS IN COPPER. Copyright © 1991 by Lindsey Davis. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Davis, Lindsey.

Venus in copper : a Marcus Didius Falco mystery / Lindsey Davis.—1st Minotaur Books ed.

        p.     cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-64728-5

1.  Falco, Marcus Didius (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   2.  Private investigators—Rome—Fiction.   3.  Murder—Investigation—Fiction.   4.  Husbands—Crimes against—Fiction.   5.  Rome—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PR6054.A8925V46     2011

823'.914—dc22

2010042894

First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson in 1991

First published in paperback by Arrow Books in 1993

First St. Martin’s Minotaur Paperback Edition: January 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-9008-0

First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: January 2011