by Lindsey Davis - (03 May 2008 - 22:31)
AuthorLindseyDavis :
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Author of the Marcus Didius Falco series of private investigator novels set in post-Augustan Rome.
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by AuthorLindseyDavis Lindsey Davis - (16 Jan 2008 - 15:38)
BookSaturnalia :
Title - booktitle Saturnalia: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel
Author - author Lindsey Davis
Category - fiction
amazonlink 0312361297
Queue status - completed
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Marcus Didius Falco is a hard-boiled private eye during 1st century Rome. He comes from a plebeian background but is married to an aristocrat, the daughter of a senator. If you've seen The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy you have an idea of the relationship.
This is the 3rd or 4th book in the series that I've read, and about the 18th in the series overall. The ones I've read have been entertaining. Not nearly as historically interesting as the Steven Saylor Gordianus series, but good solid entertainment. The Falco character is raffish, tough, smart, outspoken, and self-deprecating.
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