Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Another compelling and captivating historical mystery from the pen of multimillion-copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis. Ancient Rome is brought to life in all its humour, political manoeuvring and murderous intent...

Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. On one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515142 (April, 2013), 416 p., £8.99.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba (UK 2008)

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Liquid gold, compromised by a murderous cartel...
Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Oliver Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise...

Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. On one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. This leaves no one except Falco to conduct the investigation. Soon he is plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood all add to Falco's troubles.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515142 (August, 2008), 404 p., £7.99.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
By Jupiter! Quid pro quo or tit for tat, a Lindsey Davis novel is worth the price of admission. She makes Imperial Rome and its nefarious plots, nasty back-stabbing, and grandiose schemes into mystery fiction that is superlative. And her hard-boiled Roman PI, Marcus Didius Falco, is aman among men -- quick to spot a villain or a good-looking dancing girl. Now Lindsey Davis's newest novel in the series celebrates wine, women, and, of all things, olive oil when a chief spy who also happens to be Falco's boss is marked for murder.

Nobody is poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers; the assassination attempt comes afterward. Falco ought to know, he is at the banquet along with some unexpected guests, including Anacrites the Chief Spy and Falco's own hostile brat of a brother-in-law, Aelianus. Right from the first, Falco eyes the entertainment - which includes a sinuous Spanish dancer scantily dressed as Diana the Huntress - with suspicion.

When Anacrites is gravely wounded later that night, the only clue is a golden arrow last seen in the bow of the party dancer, a lady now on her way to Corduba, Spain. As it happens, Falco is facing fatherhood for the first time and has promised his wife to stay by her side. Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, Falco's only solution is to take the patrician Helena with him, a decision that may prove to be a colossal mistake.

For as Helena and Falco track the exotic dancer through the Iberian Peninsula, they discover a slippery scandal in the olive trade, a chilling trail of murders, and a killer without a conscience... a remorseless and cunning villain much too dangerous for a man distracted by a very pregnant wife.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba. A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel. The Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892966645 (January, 1998), 428 p., $23.00.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise.... Inimitable detective M. Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. Muggings occur, a man is killed and Rome's answer to Philip Marlowe is plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil- production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood, all ad to Falco's troubles. Along the way are Helena Justina, stubborn Senators daughter and Falco's sometime girlfriend, and Anacrites, the reptilian spy master, not to mention an old enemy from out hero's past out to make trouble...

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba. Arrow, ISBN: 0099338912 (May, 1997), 404 p., £5.99.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a surprise...
Inimitable sleuth Marcus Didius Falco is back with a vengeance. On one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies left for dead. Naturally there is no one except Falco to conduct the investigation. Soon he is plunged into the fiercely competitive world of olive oil-production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood, all add to Falco's troubles.

Suddenly, on the eve of their child's birth, Falco and his girlfriend Helena Justina decide that nothing could be better than a dangerous jaunt to Iberia.

Lindsey Davis recreates Ancient Rome with matchless colour and humour. This is the eighth of her immense! popular and critically acclaimed series of novels featuring the world's first investigator, M. Didius Falco.

Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light In Corduba. Century, ISBN: 0712659412 (June, 1996), 342 p., £15.99.