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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Ode to a Banker (Davis, Lindsey. Falco Series.) Ode to a Banker (Davis, Lindsey. Falco Series.) Lindsey Davis 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 b… OL14920915W
Alexandria Alexandria Lindsey Davis In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflic… OL14920937W
Alexandria (Falco 19) Alexandria (Falco 19) Lindsey Davis The New Falco NovelFor Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears… OL14920938W
See Delphi and die See Delphi and die Lindsey Davis When Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly married woman have been murdered at Olympia, they step in to investigate. OL16039333W
One virgin too many One virgin too many Lindsey Davis 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 m… OL176299W
The Course of Honour The Course of Honour Lindsey Davis The true-life love story of the Emperor Vespasian and the freedwoman Antonia Caenis. Despite a twenty-year hiatus, during which Vespasian married a woman of status and fathered the two future Emperor… OL176304W
Time to depart Time to depart Lindsey Davis From Wikipedia: " Set in Rome during AD 72, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the law which stated that no Roman citizen who had been sentenced … OL176308W
Enemies at home Enemies at home Lindsey Davis Flavia Albia, the first-century Roman daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, investigates a murder and burglary for which the victims' innocent slaves will be executed unless the real culprit is found. OL17872459W
The Third Nero The Third Nero Lindsey Davis "In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial gov… OL20059218W
Master and God Master and God Lindsey Davis "The emperor Domitian: talented tyrant, deluded despot. A reluctant hero, Gaius Vinius Clodianus is hand-picked for high rank in Praetorian Guard, a brave man striving for decency in a world of corru… OL20837250W
Nemesis Nemesis Lindsey Davis In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone e… OL20879185W
Three hands in the fountain Three hands in the fountain Lindsey Davis First-century Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco seeks a serial killer who keeps leaving the body parts of his murdered victims in the city's water system after festivals. OL24302759W
Time to depart Time to depart Lindsey Davis It is Rome in AD 72, and Petro, captain of the Aventine watch, with his friend Falco, finally nails Rome's top criminal. Sentenced to exile, the evil Balbinus is put aboard ship. But soon the corpses… OL24303031W