Title: Ode to a banker
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, general, Falco, marcus didius (fictitious character), fiction, Rome, fiction
Places: Rome (Empire), Rome
People: Marcus Didius Falco (41-)