- Private investigators, Fiction, Marcus Didius Falco (Fictitious character), History
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.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lindsey Davis
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780446679060
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“POETRY SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE.”
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