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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.

Last Act in Palmyra
Poseidon's Gold
La mano di ferro
Venus in Copper
Shadows in Bronze
Le miniere dell'imperatore

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    Le miniere dell'imperatore

    • 314pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    Roma, A.D. 70. La città langue sotto lo spietato sole d'agosto. Marco Didio Falco, investigatore privato di simpatie repubblicane, non ha molte prospettive e tira avanti sopperendo con l'ironia alla cronica mancanza di denaro. Un giorno, nel Foro, si imbatte in Sosia Camillina, una fanciulla in fuga da due loschi personaggi che hanno cercato di rapirla. Aiutandola, Falco scoprirà un traffico di lingotti d'argento le cui tracce lo portano fino alla lontana Britannia. Ma conosce anche la bella e intelligente Elena Giustina, figlia di un senatore, che lo aiuterà nelle indagini.

    Le miniere dell'imperatore
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    Shadows in Bronze

    • 452pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Shadows in Bronze
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    Venus in Copper

    • 292pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    "Delectably funny...A novel that gives new meaning to the term 'classic detective fiction.'" THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In 70 A.D. in ancient Rome, no one is a saint. Or so thinks Marcus Didius Falco, a private investigator first introduced in the award-winning SILVER PIGS, who's trying to prevent a murder before it happens. When every man a woman marries dies, Falco knows there's smoke and fire--and he'll stop at nothing to untangle the Gordion knot that proves it.

    Venus in Copper
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    Poseidon's Gold

    • 372pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Poseidon's Gold
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    Last Act in Palmyra

    • 420pagine
    • 15 ore di lettura
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    The sixth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Falco and his girlfriend Helena find themselves attached to a travelling comedy troupe who are touring through Syria. Falco finds himself entangled in another murder case - a second-rate playwright is murdered, leaving the comedy troupe without a bard.

    Last Act in Palmyra
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    Time to Depart

    • 432pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Time to Depart
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    A dying light in Corduba

    • 416pagine
    • 15 ore di lettura
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    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.

    A dying light in Corduba
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    Three Hands in the Fountain

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Three Hands in the Fountain
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    In pasto ai leoni

    • 380pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura
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    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.

    In pasto ai leoni
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    One Virgin Too Many

    • 356pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    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.

    One Virgin Too Many
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    Ode To A Banker

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    `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.

    Ode To A Banker
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    A Body in the Bath House

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    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.

    A Body in the Bath House
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    The Accusers

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    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.

    The Accusers
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    Scandal Takes a Holiday

    • 368pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    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)

    Scandal Takes a Holiday
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    Saturnalia

    • 448pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Saturnalia
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    Alexandria

    • 288pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Alexandria
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    Nemesis

    • 363pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura
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    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.

    Nemesis
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    NEMESIS

    • 304pagine
    • 11 ore di lettura
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    In the summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco grapples with personal issues following a recent loss. Seeking distraction, he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father.

    NEMESIS

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    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.

    Falco: The Official Companion