Ode To A Banker: (Falco 12)

Ode To A Banker: (Falco 12)

by Lindsey Davis (Author)

Synopsis

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. A visit to the Chrysippusscriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is forced to accept. Lindsey Davis' twelfth novel wittily explores Roman publishing and banking, taking us from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage, to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 01 Jun 2001

ISBN 10: 0099298201
ISBN 13: 9780099298205
Book Overview: One of the best of the current writers in this field' Donna Leon, Sunday Times

Media Reviews
Lindsay Davis brings Imperial Rome to life. - Ellis Peters

Her witty and literate Falco novels are models of the genre. - Times

One can only hope that Falco will be around for as long as Flashman. - Time Out

A rollicking narrative... its award-winning author [is] in excellent form. - Frances Fyfield
Author Bio
Lindsey Davis has written over twenty historical novels, beginning with The Course of Honour. Her bestselling mystery series features laid-back First Century detective Marcus Didius Falco and his partner Helena Justina, plus friends, relations, pets and bitter enemy the Chief Spy. After an English degree at Oxford University, Lindsey joined the Civil Service but became a professional author in 1989. Her books are translated into many languages and have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her many prizes include the Premio Colosseo, awarded by the Mayor of Rome 'for enhancing the image of Rome', the Sherlock award for Falco as Best Comic Detective and the Crimewriters' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. She was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich, London. Her most recent books are Master and God followed by The Ides of April.