- Mystery, Private investigators, Vestal virgins, Vestals
Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical, hard-boiled investigator from the rough end of Rome. He does a bit of everything, from political investigating to art-fraud work. But he never seems to make enough money to move his family out of a seedy tenement.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Lindsey Davis
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 324
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, BCA, Arrow
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099799719
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