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Two for the Lions (The Falco series) - Softcover

Davis, Lindsey

 
9780446609029: Two for the Lions (The Falco series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0446609021 ISBN 13: 9780446609029
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

The Sam Spade of Ancient Rome ("Publishers Weekly") sinks his teeth into the investigation of a star gladiator's murder in the tenth novel in this popular mystery series. "A detail-rich scan of daily life in ancient Rome".--"Booklist".

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Review

The further Davies gets into her series of private eye (or, to be precise, public informer) thrillers set in the Rome of Vespasian, the more she learns what it is that she does best. Falco is working for the tax department, investigating used gladiator scams, and stumbles into more murders. The various mysteries here--the stabbing of the arena- lion trained to eat criminals, the murder of a famous gladiator generally considered past his prime--are solved elegantly enough and with a genial ruthlessness appropriate to the period in which they are set.

Davies never forgets that this society rests on the backs of slaves and has a taste for bloodshed which even we might consider excessive. But what we read Davies for is partly for the continuing soap opera of on-the-make Falco, his upper-class wife Helena and their variously rackety, lowlife or snobbish connections, and partly for her simply wonderful knowledge of how things worked. We learn, for example, a lot about the wild- beast trade and provincial resentments in a North Africa which the Romans still suspect are more Carthaginian than not; Davies's novels are entertaining and informative, and leave one wanting more.--Roz Kaveney

Review

"Surely the best historical detective in the business" (Daily Telegraph)

"For more laughter visit Ancient Rome in Lindsey Davis' tenth novel" (Mail on Sunday)

"If only all bestsellers were this satisfying" (Time Out)

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0446609021
ISBN 13 
9780446609029
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
464