Lindsey Davis A Body In The Bath House
(Lindsey Davis)
Marcus Didius Falco,once a common informer,now middle class,discovers that newly acpquired rank brings saaociated problems,the most gruesome of which is a corpse buried under the tiles of his new bath house.The contractors have fled to Britain where,as the Fates have it ,Falco is ordered.
A local chief and ally of the Romans is having a Palace built by the Emperor Vespasian.However the Project is running late,work is slipshod,and fatal accidents keep happenig.Somewhere on site are the murderers who may be behind this latest spate of killings.Somewhere in the forefront,trouble-shooting for the Emperor is Falco,Whithout an ally and now next to the list for assassination.
Lindsey Davis''s first Falco novel, The Silver Pigs, was published in 1989. Since then, her novel Two For the Lions won the inaugural Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in 1998, and in 1999 she received the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for her creation, Marcus Didius Falco. Lindsey''s last ten novels have all been Sunday Times hardback bestsellers. She was born in Birmingham but now lives in Greenwich.
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