See Delphi And Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel - Hardcover

Davis, Lindsey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312357656 ISBN 13: 9780312357658

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Now a member of the equestrian rank and married to his beloved Helena Justina, Marcus Didius Falco cannot get away from his trade as an informer when he is hired to take on a murder investigation that will require him and Helena to travel to Olympia, Greece, disguised as tourists to uncover the truth about a series of disappearances. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

See Delphi and Die is built, like several of Lindsay Davis' recent episodes of the adventures of her Roman private detective Falco, around the fact that the ancient world had a surprising number of versions of amenities we consider modern. Here, for example, we get the Roman tourist industry, with the newly rich and the old gentry buying package trips that might last for years, and that take them to the games at Olympia, to the oracle at Delphi and to the sights of Athens. When young women on these tours start turning up dead, Falco persuades the authorities to let him investigate. This is a classic whodunit as well as a Classical one--we get to know the tour party well and follow Falco and his wife Helena Justina as they piece together the inconsistencies and untruths in everyone's stories.

Like many of Lindsay Davis' books, See Delphi and Die is inventive in the twists and turns of its plot and includes one of the nastier last page twists of narrative she has ever imagined. The only real weakness here is that over seventeen books, Davis has built up a large cast of supporting characters and has to find in every book tasks for some of them to do, producing rather too many red herrings in the process. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

- "Like visiting old friends in a familiar and endearing, if sometimes bizarre, environment. Jokes and skulduggery crowd the pages." --Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0312357656
• ISBN 13: 9780312357658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300