The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery: 1 (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries) - Softcover

Davis, Lindsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312614241 ISBN 13: 9780312614249

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2011

Synopsis

The Silver Pigs is the classic novel which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently incovenient drive for justice.
When Marcus Didius Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her and, in doing so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and, most hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indominable senator's daughter connected to the very traitors that Falco has sworn to expose.

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Book Description:

Discover one of the world's favourite detectives, as his first case leads him into conspiracy, murder and adventure ...

About this edition

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312614241
• ISBN 13: 9780312614249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352