Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
In the wealthy town of Ostia, our hero Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette - with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal - Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there...

'Infamia', the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing. His fellow scribes have employed Falco to find him and bring him back from his lazy, drunken truancy. However, Falco suspects that there is more to his absence than might first appear. Before long, Falco's enquiries lead him into the world of piracy and the discovery of criminal traditions long believed dead. Is this the right path towards finding 'Infamia'? Why would pirates have taken him? And if they have, will he be found alive?

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday. Arrow, ISBN: 0099445271 (June, 2005), 344 p., £6.99.

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
As an "informer" -- a private detective -- Marcus Didius Falco has an insider's knowledge of the Empire's less than glorious side. He's also been in the middle of its most dangerous secrets more than once. So when he's hired to find notorious gossip "scribe" Infamia, Marcus figures the missing muckraker is either taking advantage of a vacation bribe from some wealthy wife -- or resting up from injuries inflicted by some senator's henchmen. But instead of earning an easy fee, Marcus soon finds himself at odds against a sinister ring of pirates preying on the wealthy; a ruthlessly-vulgar construction magnate...and several of his own less-than-reputable family members. And what he uncovers will lead him through the dark byways and underground of the Empire's busiest seaport...where a cold-blooded killer with nothing to lose waits to bury one cynical informer for good...

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday. A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery. St. Martin's Paperbacks, ISBN: 0312940408 (May, 2005), 384 p., $6.99.

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Ancient Romes organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in Lindsey Daviss latest adventure featuring First Century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. One of Marcus Didius Falcos guiltier pleasures is reading the scandal column in the Daily Gazette, which is always conveniently found in Romes Forum. When the scandal columns pseudonymous scribe Infamia goes missing in seaside Ostia, Falco is asked to search for him. It turns out that Infamia was working on a story about an underworld kidnapping racket involving Cilician pirates. And Falco soon finds himself up against a much more sinister and powerful organization than anything he has encountered before--a paramilitary group whose corrupt tentacles reach well into the ranks of the government itself.

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday. A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892968125 (September, 2004), 332 p., $24.95 (?).

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday (UK 2004)

From the Publisher:
In the wealthy town of Ostia, our hero Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when his girlfriend, Helena, arrives carrying a batch of old copies of the Daily Gazette - with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal - Falco is forced to admit to Petronius his real reasons for being there-'Infamia', the pen name of the scribe who writes the gossip column for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing. His fellow scribes have employed Falco to find him and bring him back from his lazy, drunken truancy. However, Falco suspects that there is more to his absence than might first appear. Before long, Falco's enquiries lead him into the world of piracy and the discovery of criminal traditions long believed dead. Is this the right path towards finding 'Infamia'? Why would pirates have taken him? And if they have, will he be found alive?

Lindsey Davis: Scandal Takes A Holiday. Century, ISBN: 0712625879 (June, 2004), 283 p., £16.99.