- Mystery, Private investigators, Legislators, Crimes against
Falco and his young associates are hired to prove a convicted senator did not commit suicide but was murdered.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Lindsey Davis
- First published
- November 2004
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Arrow, Mysterious Press, CENTURY
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780792733768
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First sentence
“I HAD BEEN an informer for over a decade when I finally learned what the job entailed.”
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