The jupiter myth
By: Lindsey Davis.
Publisher: Century; Ebury Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Falco, Marcus Didius (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- Rome -- Fiction; Romans -- Great Britain -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D. -- Fiction; London (England) -- History -- To 1500 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The fourteenth Falco novel is a tale of love, gangsters and female gladiators--including one from Falco's own past. Falco and his family are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to Roman crime magnates operating in London, but he was also close to King Togidubnus. So when he is discovered stuffed head-first down a well, a tricky diplomatic situation develops that Falco must defuse, and which leads him into the seedy underbelly of London. There is a newly built amphitheatre in town, with female gladiators, but Falco soon realizes that the initially troublesome gladiators--including one from his own bachelor past--may just give him the edge he needs to solve Verovolcus' murder, as the gangsters are pursued back to the Italian town of Ostia for a final showdown."--Provided by publisher.