Kriminalroman om det antikke Rom
Ode to a Banker
โ Scribed by Davis, Lindsey
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Edition
- 2009
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
In the long, hot Roman summer of AD74, 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 forced to accept.
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