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The Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Series
Written by Lindsey Davis

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Silver Pigs

One fine day, A.D. 70, comely blonde Sosia Camillina quite literally
runs into Marcus Didius Falco on the steps of the Forum. It seems Sosia is on the
lam from a couple of street toughs, and after a quick and dirty rescue, P.I. Falco wants to
know why.

Falco finds out that Sosia, the niece of a highly placed senator, holds the key to
a stockpile of silver pigs--ingots intended for no good use. Hoping for future favors
from Sosia's powerful uncle, Falco embarks on an intricate case of smuggling, murder,
and treason that reaches into the palace itself. And if he does not tread lightly, the
treacherous puzzle of the silver pigs could buy him a one-way ticket to his own
funeral pyre....

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Shadows in Bronze

Friends, Romans, countrymen, Marcus Didius Falco, Ancient Rome's favorite son and
sometime palace spy, returns to aid the Emperor Vespasian himself. This time citizen Falco
has been charged with finding the culprits who are plotting Vespasian's imperial
demise. In the meanwhile, Falco also has some unfinished business with one citizen
Helena Justina, a high-born beauty he has given his heart to. Although at these wages,
his heart is all he can afford to render unto her--which causes its own problems.

From the Isle of Capreae to Neapolis to high-flying antics at the Circus Maximus, Falco
does Vespasian proud, seeking out the schemers who would topple his regime, scouring
the gin joints and flesh pots of the Roman Empire for a lead on one particularly devious nobleman....

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Venus In Copper

The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly
on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen.
Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying
to prevent a murder before it happens.

Severina Zotica, a savvy, flame-haired temptress, has had the misfortune of marrying men who died
rather quickly and under mysterious circumstances. She has met her match in Falco.
He can't be seduced, lied to, or bribed off a case as interesting as this one.
But when two people are violently killed under his watch, Falco gets hot under the toga.
And just when it looks as if a serious pummeling by trained killers will send him
home for good, Falco, the noblest of Romans, has another go at the Gordian knot that will
take all his skill to untangle....

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The Iron Hand Of Mars

When wild Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general
disappears, the worried Emperor Vespasian turns to the one man he can trust:
Marcus Didius Falco.

To Falco, an undercover tour of Germania is an assignment from Hades.
On a journey that only a stoic could survive, Falco meets with disarray, torture, and murder.
His one hope: in the northern forest lives a Druid priestess who perhaps can be
persuaded to cease her anti-Rome activities and work for peace.
One the other hand, Falco may just be more grist for the mill....

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Poseidon's Gold

After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is
back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he
desperately need 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena,
his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous
claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.

Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes
the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice.
The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden
labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems
likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions...

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Last Act In Palmyra

There are times when a shamus has to get out of town, even in A.D. 72. With money
and woman troubles mounting in Rome, Falco is heading east to search for a missing
Roman Circus perfomer and to carry out a secret spy mission for the Emperor.
The woman causing Falco's heart trouble, Helena Justina, a senator's daughter, is coming
along for the trip. She can't live openly with the plebian Falco, who is below her
in rank. But she can't live without him, either. Ergo, they're together in desolate,
dangerous Syria to find a corpse, lose a lady, and join a traveling theater
troupe where the last act is, of course, murder.

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Time To Depart

Roman law allows every citizen condemned to death "time to depart"--in other words,
time to skip town. No matter how hard Marcus Didius Falco worked to convict Balbinus
Pius, the dirtiest underworld organizer in the empire, the man has gotten away scot-free.
Now as every crook in Rome is scrambling to take over Balbinus's scams,
Falco has to deal with heists in the Emporium, murders in the vias, shady deals at the Bower
of Venus--not to mention his own forbidden romance with a senator's daughter.
Meanwhile, Balbinus is said to be on his way home. And if he is, Falco's life won't
be worth a red centum...

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A Dying Light In Corduba

Nobody is poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers;
the assassination attempt comes afterward. Falco ought to know, he is at the banquet
along with some unexpected guests, including Anacrites the Chief Spy and
Falco's own hostile brat of a brother-in-law, Aelianus. Right from the first,
Falco eyes the entertainment--which includes a sinuous Spanish dancer scantily dressed
as Diana the Huntress--with suspicion.

When Anacrites is gravely wounded later that night, the only clue is a golden arrow last seen
in the bow of the party dancer, a lady now on her way to Corduba, Spain. As it happens,
Falco is facing fatherhood for the first time and has promised his wife to stay by her side.
Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, Falco's only solution is to take the patrician Helena with him,
a decision that may prove to be a colossal mistake.

For as Helena and Falco track the exotic dancer through the Iberian Peninsula,
they discover a slippery scandal in the olive trade, a chilling trail of murders,
and a killer without a conscience...a remorseless and cunning villain much too dangerous
for a man distracted by a very pregnant wife.

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Three Hands in the Fountain

In vino, veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horror--
as Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer
of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius
Longus, Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes
a gruesome discovery: a human hand.

Small and evidently female, the hand suggests its owner met a
terrifying fate. Naturally, Falco and Petro, formerly of the Vigiles,
want to seize on it as their first big case. The officials of Rome, however,
prefer to hush up the incident, since a population that riots at the drop
of a toga might run wild if body parts are polluting their drinking water.

O tempora! O mores! Soon other delicate, dismembered hands are
being found in Rome's two hundred miles of aqueduct. Now aided, inspired,
and give critical clues by his wife, Helena, Falco & Partner are ready to
buck the status quo and even butt heads with Falco's old boss,
Chief Spy Anacrites, to crack the case.

But O, Hades! The duo suspects a serial killer is at large, linked
to public festivals, and likely to strike again at the upcoming
Roman Games. Even a detective as astute as Falco may not spot
a twisted mind in a crowd of 250,000. and if Falco loses this race with time,
another pretty victim will make a deadly splash...

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