Marcus Didius Falco mysteries

Imperial Rome's private investigator Marcus Didius Falco takes on a case involving the murder of a wealthy real estate developer.

Private investigator and royal informer Marcus Didius Falco is hot on the trail of organized crime in 72 A.D. Rome. Assisted by his girlfriend Helena Justina and his best friend, watch captain L. Petronius Longus, Falco tries to complete this imperial commission without being killed. Meanwhile he's hampered with a stray dog, an abandoned baby, a missing niece, and an irritating landlord.

"Rome's top shamus Marcus Didius Falco finds himself in a foul situation when he's appointed Procurer of Sacred Poultry. Morosely baby-sitting geese and stewing about his future, he's about to make a classic mistake: He doesn't take his newest client seriously." "The girl, a perfect doll, had waited for him on his doorstep, tapping a tiny foot in a golden sandal, her loyal retainers hanging about within earshot. Her voice was petulant when she told...

The thirteenth novel featuring sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that's sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco's own household, specifically the bathhouse-where a body turns up. Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache: building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor....

Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco becomes caught up in the trial of a senator, a case that becomes complicated by the senator's convenient "suicide" and draws Falco into a confrontation with powerful forces in the Roman legal system.

Vacationing from his work as a private intelligence gatherer for the emperor Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco journeys with his wife to Alexandria, where he is challenged to solve the murder of a librarian whose killers are nefarious book thieves.