Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold (UK 2008)

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A murdered legionary, and Falco is prime suspect...
Rome AD 72: Marcus Didius Falco returns home from a six-month mission to the German legions. But trouble is in store for him: his apartment has been wrecked by squatters and an ex-legionary friend of his colourfully heroic brother Festus is demanding money, allegedly owed him as the result of one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother - who wants him to clear the family name.

Then just as Falco thinks things can only get better, fate takes a turn for the worse... The legionary is found viciously stabbed to death with Falco the prime suspect. Now he has only three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence and win a fortune...

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515098 (August, 2008), 365 p., £7.99.

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold (USA 1995)

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After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true.

Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and my the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions...

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold. A Detective Novel in Ancient Rome. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345380258 (November, 1995), 336 p., $5.99.

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold (UK 1994)

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Marcus Didius Falco returns from a mission to find his apartment has been wrecked by squatters and an ex-legionary friend of his heroic brother Festus is demanding money, allegedly owed him as the result of one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother -- who wants him to clear the family name. Then just as Falco thinks things can only get better, fate takes a turn for the worse...

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold. Arrow, ISBN: 0099831902 (September, 1994), 365 p., £4.99.

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold (UK 1993)

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AD 72: To many Rome is the centre of the Empire, to Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual informer, it is the home of his mother, the domineering matriarch who has kept the Didius clan together since her husband absconded with a redhead some twenty years before.

Trouble is the last thing Falco wants on his return from a six month mission to the German legions. But trouble is in store: his apartment has been wrecked by squatters and an ex-legionary friend of his colourfully heroic brother, Festus, has parked himself in the only other possible refuge, his mother's kitchen. What's worse, the man is demanding money allegedly owed him and his legion from one of Festus's wild schemes. Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother, who wants him to clear the family name.

But little does he realise that trouble is only just beginning: the legionary is found viciously stabbed to death with Falco the prime suspect. His friend Petronius is investigating the case and while the intrepid informer treads the dingy streets of Rome his girlfriend, Helena Justina, is arrested as an accomplice, leaving her aristocratic family even more certain that this plebeian will not make a suitable husband.

Even if her family were to agree to the marriage, Falco still needs an impossible 400,000 sesterces to buy himself into the middlerank. And to clear the family he has to find Geminus, the father who left all those years before, for he is the only one who knows what Festus was really up to.

Compelled to face the past he deplores and a future he despairs of, Falco has just three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence and win a fortune...

Lindsey Davis: Poseidon's Gold. A Falco Novel. Century, ISBN: 0712658319 (June, 1993), 336 p., £9.99.