Poseidon's Gold (The Falco series) - Hardcover

Davis, Lindsey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 051759241X ISBN 13: 9780517592410

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1994

Synopsis

Imperial Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco must put his detecting career--and his life--on the line when he is arrested for murder and his aristocratic beloved, Helena Justina, is accused of being his accomplice. 15,000 first printing.

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From the Inside Flap:

STUFF...A classic hard-boiled, smart-mouth detective who happens to work in ancient Rome."
--Molly Ivins
Los Angeles Daily News
After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.
Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions...
"AN INTRIGUING TALE...COMPULSIVE READING."
--Roanoke Times & World-News
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About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 051759241X
• ISBN 13: 9780517592410
• Binding: Hardcover