The Silver Pigs
by:
Lindsey Davis (author)
Rome. AD 70. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco knows his way around the eternal city. He can handle the muggers, the police and most of the girls. But one fresh sixteen-year-old, Sosia Camillina, finds him a case no Roman should be getting his nose into. Some friends, Romans and countrymen are...
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Rome. AD 70. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco knows his way around the eternal city. He can handle the muggers, the police and most of the girls. But one fresh sixteen-year-old, Sosia Camillina, finds him a case no Roman should be getting his nose into. Some friends, Romans and countrymen are doing a highly profitable, if highly illegal, trade in silver ingots or pigs. For Falco it's the start of a murderous trail that leads far beyond the seven hills.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780517573631 (0517573636)
ASIN: 517573636
Publish date: August 5th 1989
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Roman,
Ancient
Series: Marcus Didius Falco (#1)
Rome in 70AD, and Marcus Didius Falco, informer/private eye finds himself caught up in an investigation that reaches to some of the highest people in the empire.Told in a slightly tongue in cheek manner, this tries to be a Chandler-esque PI story set in the days of Romes ever expanding empire. For t...
I don't think this series is for me. I couldn't get use to the author's writing style. It felt choppy and all over the place.
Well that didn't take long!Enjoy the different setting for a mystery. Bought the characters to life well.
bookshelves: published-1989, mystery-thriller, historical-fiction, fraudio, winter20092010, ancient-history, adventure, italy, britain-england, filthy-lucre, play-dramatisation Read from February 01 to 04, 2010 The Roman detective chances upon an illegal trade in precious metal, after rescuing a...
I love both well-done historical fiction and mystery, so I have a particular affection for hybrids like the books by Ellis Peters or Carrie Bebris. Given the setting in Imperial Rome and the smart alleck first person voice, this sounded like a blend of Gladiator and The Big Sleep only more historica...
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