Ode to a banker

by Davis, Lindsey

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In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigi…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Ode to a banker / Lindsey Davis.

Summary

In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is foced to accept.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2000.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Century
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2000.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (305 pages : : map)

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1176314065
  • LC Classification:PR6054.A8925
  • Dewey Decimal:823.914

Subjects

Detective and mystery fiction Falco, Marcus Didius Fiction Historical fiction Rome -- Fiction Rome (Empire)

Writers

Davis, Lindsey

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