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Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
On his return from a six-month mission to the German legions, Falco has just three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence, and win a fortune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia, and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands -- in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, A Comedy of Terrors. Flavia Albia, daughter and successor of private informer Marcus Didius Falco is twiddling her thumbs with no clients during the December festival of...
4) Saturnalia
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 18
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, to find a fugitive, an enemy of Rome who vanished from house arrest, leaving behind the body of murdered young man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A suspicious death and subsequent murder send Flavia Albia down a twisted path to expose corruption and betrayal in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery. First century Rome is not the quiet, orderly city that it pretends to be and in this environment, a very clever private informer can thrive. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, is a chip off the old block. She's taken over her father's old profession, and, like him, she occasionally...
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
The Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, goes to Syria in search of an abducted woman who was a water organist in a circus. A perfect cover to do some spying for the emperor. By the author of The Iron Hand of Mars.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
When the scribe of ancient Rome's daily scandal column goes missing in seaside Ostia, investigator Marcus Didius Falco learns that the scribe was working on a story about an underworld kidnapping racket involving pirates.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
First-century Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco seeks a serial killer who keeps leaving the body parts of his murdered victims in the city's water system after festivals.
10) Time to depart
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
In ancient Rome, Marcus Didius Falco, the emperor's secret agent investigates a rash of murders believed to be the work of the convicted mobster Balbinus. From his exile, Balbinus is revenging himself on the people who helped convict him. Lots of local color, from weddings to Roman firefighting methods. By the author of Last Act in Palmyra.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The first century Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, investigates the world of gladiators after one is murdered. The probe takes him to Tripoli where gladiator handlers buy their lions.
12) Nemesis
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a pair of his father's associates disappear under suspicious circumstances, informer Marcus Didius Falco of A.D. 77 Rome investigates allegations of a feud involving a group of notorious freedmen, who are receiving high-level protection from corruptrulers.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
First-century Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco is drawn into the secretive and sometimes bloody world of Rome's religious cults when a female member of one of these groups is found murdered.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
16) The Jupiter myth
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
While visiting his wife's relatives in Britain, Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco confronts a diplomatic crisis when the body of King Togidubnus is found stuffed down a barroom well.
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco becomes caught up in the trial of a senator, a case that becomes complicated by the senator's convenient "suicide" and draws Falco into a confrontation with powerful forces in the Roman legal system.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the sacred grove of Julius Caesar, something deadly stirs in the undergrowth-a serial killer, who haunted the gardens for years, has claimed another victim-in Lindsey Davis's next historical mystery, The Grove of the Caesars. At the feet of her adoptive father, renowned private informer Marcus Didius Falco, Flavia Albia learned a number of important rules. First and foremost-always keep one's distance from the palace, nothing good comes from that...
19) A capitol death
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. While it looks like a suicide, one witness swears that she saw it happen and that he was pushed. Normally, this would attract very little official notice but this man happened to be in charge of organizing the Imperial Triumphs demanded by the emperor. The Emperor Domitian, autocratic and erratic, has decided that he deserves two Triumphs...
Author
Series
Marcus Didius Falco mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
Rome. AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco, now Imperial Agent to Emperor Vespasian, is keeping busy tidying up corpses, kicking over the traces of a failed coup, making a bit on the side in stolen lead ingots. But a new plot to usurp the purple robes of power puts Falco on the back of a mule with a one-way ticket down the Appian Way--bumping into trouble, treason and Helena Justina, a senator's daughter he's trying hard to forget.--Publisher description (http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random049/90025078.html)....
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