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Ode to a Banker

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 384
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780446679060
  • Characters
  • Marcus Didius Falco, Petronius Longus, Helena Justina
  • Settings
  • Roma
  • Genres
  • mystery, historical, crime, fiction, roman, detective, humor, ancient
  • Release date
  • 2002