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Ode to a Banker, by Lindsey Davis
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Ode to a Banker
by Lindsey Davis |
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• pro #1 Enlightening look at Roman banking.
• pro #2 Fun, classical mystery style.
• pro #3 Light, entertaining reading.
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• con #1 Not enough on Helena.
• con #2 Hard to keep track of the writers and suspects.
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The twelfth in the Falco series explores the Roman worlds of bankers and writers in a style new to Lindsey Davis -- Falco gathers all suspects together in order to make the guilty one confess.
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The Greek banker Chrysippus who also runs a vanity press is gruesomely murdered.
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Marcus Didius Falco is called in by the vigiles to solve the case.
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Meanwhile, Falco's family continues to spring surprises on the hapless informer/detective. |
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Anacrites, Falco's nemesis, gets his just desserts.
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Takes place in A.D. 74, in Flavian Rome, under the Emperor Vespasian.
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Ode to a Banker, by Lindsey Davis
Ode to a Banker is the twelfth in the Lindsey Davis murder mystery series, featuring informer (detective) Marcus Didus Falco, and the first to take on the format of a traditional whodunit -- all the suspects are gathered together in the big room where the first murder took place, so Falco can stage a re-enactment. For Falco followers, there is a shortage of engaging interaction with Falco's demanding family members and friends, which is probably necessary because of the extra large cast of suspects -- primarily aspiring no-talent writers, bankers and their heavies, and greedy relatives.
As is true of the others in the series, Ode to a Banker is light and lively historical fiction entertainment.
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