Davis, Lindsey
Ode to a banker Lindsey Davis. - New York : Mysterious Press, c2001. - 372 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm. - A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Book 12 .
Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on papyrus. Hell hath no fury like an author scorned, and when Chrysippus turns up murdered - in the library, no less - it's poetic justice. Appointed the official investigator, Falco's soon up to his stylus in outraged writers and shifty bankers. Now it's time to employ his real talents: deducing the killer from an assembly of suspects.
0892967404
00068668
Falco, Marcus Didius (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--Rome--Fiction.
Rome--History--Vespasian, 69-79--Fiction.
PR6054.A8925 / O34 2001
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Ode to a banker Lindsey Davis. - New York : Mysterious Press, c2001. - 372 p. : 1 map ; 24 cm. - A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Book 12 .
Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on papyrus. Hell hath no fury like an author scorned, and when Chrysippus turns up murdered - in the library, no less - it's poetic justice. Appointed the official investigator, Falco's soon up to his stylus in outraged writers and shifty bankers. Now it's time to employ his real talents: deducing the killer from an assembly of suspects.
0892967404
00068668
Falco, Marcus Didius (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--Rome--Fiction.
Rome--History--Vespasian, 69-79--Fiction.
PR6054.A8925 / O34 2001
Dav 30