Title: One virgin too many
First published: 1999
Description: Marcus Didius Falco is a cynical, hard-boiled investigator from the rough end of Rome. He does a bit of everything, from political investigating to art-fraud work. But he never seems to make enough money to move his family out of a seedy tenement. But fresh from his adventure in Two for the Lions in North Africa, he finds new respectability. His efforts are rewarded when he is appointed to a post in the religious hierarchy of government cults and becomes keeper of the city's sacred geese. Now Falco wants nothing more than to spend time relaxing at home. But all too soon he finds himself caught up in the murder of a member of one of the sacred brotherhoods and the disappearance of the most likely new candidate for the Order of Vestal Virgins.Lindsey Davis's look at the complexities of Roman society and attitudes has rarely been so impressively on display as in this engrossing historical mystery.
Subjects: Mystery, Private investigators, Vestal virgins, Vestals, Fiction, Marcus Didius Falco (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Fiction, historical, general, Rome, fiction, Falco, marcus didius (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
Places: Rome
Time periods: Vespasian, 69-79
LC classification: PR6054.A8925 O54 2000