Falco is a Roman informer who has a nose for trouble. In the Forum, where pretty Sosia flees for her life, he rashly decides to save her - and regrets the move. She has stolen Imperial ingots. Senator's daughter Helena Justina is connected to traitors Falco has sworn to expose. The snooping plebe faces a murderous cabal.
Marco Didio Falco Serie
Entrate nelle vibranti strade dell'antica Roma durante il regno dell'imperatore Vespasiano con questa accattivante serie di misteri storici. Seguite un investigatore privato astuto e spesso cinico mentre naviga nel pericoloso panorama dell'intrigo politico e del mondo criminale. Ogni episodio offre un avvincente mix di lavoro investigativo pieno di suspense e uno sguardo autentico sulla vita romana. Preparatevi per avventure emozionanti piene di arguzia, pericolo e i segreti di un impero passato.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
Shadows in Bronze
- 452pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
Marcus Didius Falco takes to the streets of Ancient Rome once more, this time as a private investigator for the Emperor Vespasian himself. He is put on the trail of a villain who means to depose the Emperor.
La Venere di Rame
- 357pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is deperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity... Things go from bad to worse though when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidently, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes and rent racketeers. And, all the while, trying to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorius instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, this Lindsey Davis' classic tale Venus in Copper shows Falco at his very finest.
Poseidon's Gold
- 372pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Rome, AD 72. Marcus Falco returns from a six-month mission to the German legions. But trouble awaits him - his apartment has been wrecked and someone is demanding money from him. Worse is to come when that person is killed, and Falco is the prime suspect.
Ultimo atto a Palmira
- 477pagine
- 17 ore di lettura
Vespasiano invia il fidato Marco Didio Falco nel lontano Oriente, ai confini dell'Impero, per una difficile missione di spionaggio. A complicare le cose subentra l'inspiegabile scomparsa di Sofrona, suonatrice d'organo che accompagna la danza con i serpenti di Talia, amica di vecchia data di Falco. Dopo un violento scontro con il signore di Petra, Falco dovrà attraversare il deserto insieme a Elena Giustina. Durante il viaggio verso Palmira i due si uniscono a una compagnia teatrale itinerante. Tra scorpioni mortali, tribù ostili e misteriosi incidenti mai casuali, Falco si cimenterà persino nella composizione di una commedia.
Time to Depart
- 432pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime--and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.
A dying light in Corduba
- 416pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. On one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation. Soon he is plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falco's troubles.
Three Hands in the Fountain
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducterd during festivals, and the next Games are only days away. As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus, they face a race against time and a strong test of their friendship. And they know that the sadistic killer lurks somewhere on the festive streets of Rome.
In pasto ai leoni
- 380pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Scomode sorprese per Marco Didio Falco, l'investigatore più audace e sregolato dell'antica Roma. Quando Vespasiano lo nomina revisore contabile per il Grande censimento, Falco si illude di aver finalmente trovato una via comoda e sicura per arricchirsi. Ma il compito di scoprire gli evasori fiscali lo costringe a lavorare insieme all'infido Anacrite, il capo delle spie imperiali, e a indagare gli affari sommersi dei ricchi lanisti, i fornitori di gladiatori e bestie feroci per le venationes e i giochi dell'arena. La morte violenta di un popolare leone killer segna l'inizio di una nuova, rischiosa avventura investigativa, poiché fra i lanisti sembra essere scoppiata una faida legata ai lucrosi appalti di Vespasiano per la costruzione dell'Anfiteatro Flavio. E quando anche il più acclamato gladiatore di Roma viene ucciso - non nell'arena, ma mentre dorme nel suo letto -, gli indizi conducono Falco e l'inseparabile amante, la patrizia Elena Giustina, fino in Tripolitania, dove il fratello di Elena risulta invischiato nei traffici africani che si nascondono dietro i delitti.
One Virgin Too Many
- 356pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical, hard-boiled investigator living in first-century Rome. His latest case finds him drawn into the world of the Roman religious cults and the murder of a member of the Sacred Brotherhoods.
`The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues.'In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates Falco in a gruesome literary murder, so when commissioned to investigate, Falco is forced to accept.
A Body in the Bath House
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
AD75, and in Britain King Togidubnus of the Atrebates is running up huge bills for his fine new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace). Suspecting corruption, the frugal Emperor Vespasian demands an investigation and Falco - with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome - accepts the task.
The Jupiter Myth
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
The Jupiter Myth
Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Africanus and Italicus, preparing an affidavit for the trial of a senator. The prosecution is successful but a month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide.
Scandal Takes a Holiday
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
In the wealthy town of Ostia, Marus Didius Flaco appears to tbe enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend Helena arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette, Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there. (Back cover)
See Delphi and Die
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
When Falco and Helena hear that a young girl and a newly married woman have been murdered at Olympia, they step in to investigate.
Saturnalia
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
Saturnalia is the eighteenth book in Lindsey Davis' bestselling Falco series. It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness -- then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities, for Helena's brother Justinus has also vanished, perhaps fatefully involved once more with the great lost love of his youth. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule, the search seems impossible and only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets.
Alexandria
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
For 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 Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse and the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls.
Nemesis
- 363pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
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 else's misfortunes. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father, Geminus, have disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
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Falco: The Official Companion
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman informer, as he stood on the steps of the Temple of Saturn, looking out across the Forum: the heart of his world.