La Plata de Britania
- 328 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Marco Didio Falcón Serie
Adéntrate en las vibrantes calles de la antigua Roma durante el reinado del emperador Vespasiano con esta cautivadora serie de misterio histórico. Sigue a un astuto y a menudo cínico investigador privado mientras navega por el traicionero panorama de la intriga política y el submundo criminal. Cada entrega ofrece una convincente mezcla de trabajo de detective lleno de suspense y una visión auténtica de la vida romana. Prepárate para emocionantes aventuras llenas de ingenio, peligro y los secretos de un imperio pasado.
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La estatua de bronce
- 480 páginas
- 17 horas de lectura
Roma, siglo I d.C. El informante y ocasional agente imperial Marco Didio Falco lleva una vida miserable. La mujer noble de la que se enamoró, Helena Justina, ha puesto fin a su tormentosa e imposible relación. Por eso, cuando el emperador Vespasiano le asigna una tarea que lo sacará de Roma, Falco no lo duda. Disfrazado de veraneante y en compañía de su compañero Petronio Longo, miembro de la Guardia Aventina, Falco viaja al sur a Neápolis, Capreae y Pompeya, donde descubre una conspiración que involucra el envío de granos egipcios a Roma. Al mismo tiempo, tropieza con Helena Justina, casualmente de viaje, también, que podría, de forma involuntaria, enredarse en esta trama tan peligrosa como traicionera.
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Venus in Copper
- 292 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
"Delectably funny...A novel that gives new meaning to the term 'classic detective fiction.'" THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In 70 A.D. in ancient Rome, no one is a saint. Or so thinks Marcus Didius Falco, a private investigator first introduced in the award-winning SILVER PIGS, who's trying to prevent a murder before it happens. When every man a woman marries dies, Falco knows there's smoke and fire--and he'll stop at nothing to untangle the Gordion knot that proves it.
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The Iron Hand of Mars
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Marcus Didius Falco is an Roman Imperial agent in 71 AD. and he is being sent to tame the Celtic hordes
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El Oro de Poseidon
- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
Tras su regreso a Roma, Marco Didio Falco se convierte en principal sospechoso del asesinato de un ex legionario al que el hermano del detective debia dinero. Para colmo, su novia Helena Justina se ve involucrada en el asunto.
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Last Act in Palmyra
- 420 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
The sixth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Falco and his girlfriend Helena find themselves attached to a travelling comedy troupe who are touring through Syria. Falco finds himself entangled in another murder case - a second-rate playwright is murdered, leaving the comedy troupe without a bard.
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Time to Depart
- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime--and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.
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Cuando el jefe de espionaje del emperador Vespasiano sufre un atentado en las calles de Roma. Marco Didio Falco recibe el encargo de resolver el caso. Las pistas le conducen a una sociedad de importadores de aceite.
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Three Hands in the Fountain
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers. Public panic overcomes official indifference, and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate. Women are being abducterd during festivals, and the next Games are only days away. As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus, they face a race against time and a strong test of their friendship. And they know that the sadistic killer lurks somewhere on the festive streets of Rome.
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Two for the lions
- 384 páginas
- 14 horas de lectura
Another Falco detective story, set in Rome AD 73. Distracted by the apparent murder of a star man-eating lion, Falco uncovers a bitter rivalry between the gladiators' trainers. When one also ends up dead, Falco is forced to investigate.
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One Virgin Too Many
- 356 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical, hard-boiled investigator living in first-century Rome. His latest case finds him drawn into the world of the Roman religious cults and the murder of a member of the Sacred Brotherhoods.
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`The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues.'In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates Falco in a gruesome literary murder, so when commissioned to investigate, Falco is forced to accept.
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A Body in the Bath House
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
AD75, and in Britain King Togidubnus of the Atrebates is running up huge bills for his fine new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace). Suspecting corruption, the frugal Emperor Vespasian demands an investigation and Falco - with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome - accepts the task.
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The Jupiter Myth
- 352 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
The Jupiter Myth
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Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with Africanus and Italicus, preparing an affidavit for the trial of a senator. The prosecution is successful but a month later the senator is dead, apparently by suicide.
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Scandal Takes a Holiday
- 368 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
In the wealthy town of Ostia, Marus Didius Flaco appears to tbe enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend Helena arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette, Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there. (Back cover)
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Ver Delfos y morir
- 508 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
Los griegos crearon un nombre para cada cosa, y los romanos hicieron el resto. La edad de oro del turismo fue sin duda el primer siglo de nuestra era, cuando los planos no siempre eran lo suficientemente claros, los albergues estaban siempre de reformas y si algo no era como debía las agencias de viajes se lavaban las manos sin apenas explicaciones. Cuando Marco Didio Falco contrata a uno de estos negocios con el propósito de viajar con su familia a Grecia (la cuna de los célebres Juegos Olímpicos, el escenario de puestas de sol irrepetibles...), acabará envuelto en una serie de enigmáticos asesinatos de mujeres. La novela hace un guiño a nuestro tiempo, con el tema de los viajes organizados y la catadura moral de las agencias de viajes, todo ello, en una perfecta ambientación histórica y con la ironía y el desenfado que ya es habitual.
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Saturnalia
- 448 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
Saturnalia is the eighteenth book in Lindsey Davis' bestselling Falco series. It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome, and brings her home to adorn his Triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong; she acquires a mystery illness -- then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest. Marcus Didius Falco is pitted against his old rival, the Chief Spy Anacrites, in a race to find the fugitive before her presence angers the public and makes the government look stupid. Falco has other priorities, for Helena's brother Justinus has also vanished, perhaps fatefully involved once more with the great lost love of his youth. Against the riotous backdrop of the season of misrule, the search seems impossible and only Falco seems to notice that some dark agency is bringing death to the city streets.
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Alexandria
- 288 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
For Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, Alexandria holds fascination and a hint of fear. Beautiful, historic and famously unruly, the great cosmopolitan city wears Roman rule lightly. While his wife, Helena Justina, wants to see the Lighthouse and the Pyramids, Falco has a mission at the Great Library that soon turns out to involve much more than stock-taking its innumerable scrolls.
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Nemesis
- 363 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. Newly bereaved and facing unexpected upheavals in his life, it is a relief for him to consider someone else's misfortunes. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father, Geminus, have disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
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NEMESIS
- 304 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
In the summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco grapples with personal issues following a recent loss. Seeking distraction, he investigates the mysterious disappearance of a middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father.
Falco: The Official Companion
- 256 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
As the girl came running up the steps, I decided she was wearing far too many clothes...So, in 1989, readers were introduced to Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman informer, as he stood on the steps of the Temple of Saturn, looking out across the Forum: the heart of his world.
