Venus in Copper: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery

✍ Scribed by Davis, Lindsey

• Book ID: 109443802
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 173 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312647285

✦ Synopsis

Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity...Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And, all the while, trying to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorius instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, this Lindsey Davis’ classic tale Venus in Copper shows Falco at his very finest.