num_pages: 384
description: In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD74, 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 forced to accept.
language: English
title: Ode to a Banker
titlecomplete: Ode to a Banker (Marcus Didius Falco, #12)
characters: Helena Justina, Petronius Longus, Marcus Didius Falco
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Detective, Historical Mystery, Crime, Roman, Mystery, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 2509
places: Rome
series: Marcus Didius Falco
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
publisher: Mysterious Press