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In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is foced to accept.
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Ode to a Banker, Lindsey Davis
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- Released
- 2000
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- Title
- Ode to a Banker
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lindsey Davis
- Publisher
- Century
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 305
- ISBN10
- 0712670297
- ISBN13
- 9780712670296
- Series
- Marcus Didius Falco
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Murders, Detective Fiction, Detective, Ancient History, Historical Mystery, Rome, Roma, Gypsies, Roman Empire, Ancient Rome, Emperors
- First published
- 2000
- Original title
- Ode to a Banker
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is foced to accept.