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Ode to a Banker

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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 vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is foced to accept.

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Ode to a Banker, Lindsey Davis

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Rok wydania
2000
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Tytuł
Ode to a Banker
Język
angielski
Wydawca
Century
Rok wydania
2000
Oprawa
miękka
Liczba stron
305
ISBN10
0712670297
ISBN13
9780712670296
Seria
Falco
Pierwsze wydanie
2000
Oryginalna nazwa
Ode to a Banker
Ocena
4,45 z 5
Opis
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.