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Loading... El Oro de Poseidon (Spanish Edition) (original 1993; edition 1999)by Lindsey Davis (Author)
Work InformationPoseidon's Gold by Lindsey Davis (1993)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco’s latest investigation keeps him close to home since it revolves around secrets that his soldier brother, Festus, might have been hiding on his last visit to Rome before his death. Falco teams up with is estranged father, Geminus, to search for the truth. Helena Justina once again provides loyal support. Davis gives a new twist to the wise-cracking private eye novel by setting the series in ancient Rome, and by the fifth book in the series I think she’s found a balance that will appeal to fans of either mystery subgenre. ( ) An excellent entry in this series featuring Marcus Didius Falco. We meet his father, finally, and learn about him and about Marcus's brother Festus, late of the Judean wars and not always the golden-haired boy everyone seems to think he was. The plot is complex but comprehensible, involving imports from Greece, the terrors of slavery, and with a few delightful twists at the end. The life of Didius Falco is much like a roller coaster. Just when things are going well, the bottom drops out and then he fights and investigates and drinks until things go better. Luckily he still has his dear Helena to comfort him and since she is so intelligent, confer with him on whatever mystery he is working on. In this story we learn a lot more about Falco's deceased brother, Festus and his father Germanius. no reviews | add a review
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After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Romeâ??but his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.Then the chief tarnisher of Festusâ?? good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worthâ??except, as seems likely, as a meal for the emperorâ??s h No library descriptions found. |
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