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Last Act in Palmyra

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 42,83 MB

Release : 2015-06-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1466857471

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The spirit of adventure calls Falco on a new spying mission to the untamed East in search of the Emperor Vespasian . He's picking up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the Chief Spy Anacrites paying his fare, Falco knows anything can go wrong. A dangerous brush with the Brother, the sinister ruler of Nabataean Petra, sends Falco and his girlfriend Helena on a fast camel ride to Syria. Here they join a traveling theatre group, which keeps losing members in nonaccidental drownings. The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpions-then as the killer hovers, Falco tries to write a play...



Last Act in Palmyra

Author : Lindsey Davis

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Page : pages

File Size : 42,10 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Private investigators

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Marcus Didius Falco, imperial agent and informer, arrives in Petra with his aristocratic love, Helena Justina. He is on a mission from the Emperor to discover who murdered a Roman playwright. Falco is hired as a travelling theatre group's new writer and he finds himself too close for comfort to another murder. Can he write a new comedy and solve the murders? Private eye novel. Historical mystery. Cosy mystery.





Time to Depart

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 378 pages

File Size : 25,95 MB

Release : 2015-06-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 146685748X

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Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law, citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed "time to depart" into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn, Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard a ship. But soon after, an outbreak of robbery and murder suggests a new criminal ring has moved into Balbinus's territory. Petro and Falco must descend into the underworld of Vespasian's Rome to investigate.



Last Act In Palmyra

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Random House

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 40,32 MB

Release : 2011-02-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1446455092

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'Several cheers for Lindsey Davis... Great fun' The Times 'The whole thing is splendid. It has everything: mystery, pace, wit, fascinating scholarship.... she brings Imperial Rome to life' Ellis Peters 'Another excellent Falco book that is difficult to put down' ***** Reader review 'Astounding' ***** Reader review 'A fabulous read' ***** Reader review 'Full marks and happily recommended' ***** Reader review ___________________________________________ DROWNING IN MYSTERY, DYING ON STAGE The spirit of adventure calls Marcus Didius Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East. He's picking up extra fees from his old friend Thalia, the snake dancer, as he searches for Sophrona, her lost water organist. With the Chief Spy Anacrites paying his fare, Falco knows anything can go wrong. A dangerous brush with the Brother, the sinister ruler of Nabataean Petra, sends Falco and his girlfriend Helena on a fast camel-ride to Syria. They join a traveling theatre group, which keeps losing members in non-accidental drownings. The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpions - then as the killer hovers, Falco tries to write a play. . . ___________________________________________ This gripping and pacy historical mystery is perfect for fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom. With its wry humour, expert characterisation, vivid descriptions and incredible sense of adventure, you'll be hooked from page one...



Poseidon's Gold

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Random House

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 34,49 MB

Release : 2011-02-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1446455297

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A MURDERED LEGIONARY - AND THERE IS ONE PRIME SUSPECT AD 72: Marcus Didius Falco returns home from a six-month mission to the German legions. But trouble is in store for him: his apartment has been wrecked by squatters and an ex-legionary friend of his colourfully heroic brother Festus is demanding money, allegedly owed him as the result of one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother - who wants him to clear the family name. Then just as Falco thinks things can only get better, fate takes a turn for the worse. . . The legionary is found viciously stabbed to death with Falco the prime suspect. Now he has only three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence and win a fortune. . . *************************************************************************************** 'Several cheers for Lindsey Davis. . . Great fun' The Times 'Fast-moving, funny and full of atmosphere' Mail on Sunday 'Highly readable, funny and colourful' TLS 'An intriguing Roman mystery, with quite a few twists and turns' ***** Reader review 'Another excellent Falco book that is difficult to put down' ***** Reader review 'Well written, humorous, interesting and a good read' ***** Reader review 'Brilliant. Very funny too!' ***** Reader review Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor and C. J. Sansom will love this captivating, colourful and unputdownable historical mystery from multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Guaranteed to have you turning the pages, this will easily transport you back in time to Ancient Rome...



Desperate Undertaking

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 339 pages

File Size : 29,95 MB

Release : 2022-07-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1250799899

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In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down. This time a commission shows up on her doorstep - someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different. So far, the only clue was the phrase that one survivor managed to croak, "The undertaker did it..." With little to go on and bodies starting to pile up, Albia has to unravel the strangest mystery of her career in short order if she's to stop this dismaying orgy of murder.



The Jupiter Myth

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Mysterious Press

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 10,44 MB

Release : 2009-02-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0446556602

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Lindsey Davis’ popular Marcus Didius Falco series continues with a classic noir tale of gangsters, gladiators, and romance. For Falco, an attempt at relaxing while visiting his wife Helena’s relatives in Britain turns serious when a murder is discovered. King Togidubnus, the renegade henchman of Rome’s vital ally, has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well—leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco must defuse. Making matters worse, the town has become a magnet for criminals from Rome...and one murder leads to others. With the army turning a blind eye, Falco and his partner Petronius must lead the hunt for gangsters intent on taking over the city. From the wharves beside the River Thamesis to the old haunts of organized crime back home in Italy, Falco and Petronius face danger and death in every corner. Will they be able to return order to the city before they lose everything they hold dear?



And the Sea Will Tell

Author : Vincent Bugliosi

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 992 pages

File Size : 21,20 MB

Release : 2011-02-07

Category : True Crime

ISBN : 0393079694

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"Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death.



Venus in Copper

Author : Lindsey Davis

Publisher : Minotaur Books

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 45,69 MB

Release : 2011-01-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780312647285

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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.