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The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
Contributor(s): Davis, Lindsey (Author)
ISBN: 0312614241     ISBN-13: 9780312614249
Publisher: Minotaur Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical
- Fiction | Historical - Ancient
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery
Dewey: FIC
Series: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.70 lbs) 352 pages
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Quiz #: 113387
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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The Silver Pigs is the classic novel which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently incovenient drive for justice.
When Marcus Didius Falco encounters the young and very pretty Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately that there is something amiss. When she confesses that she is fleeing for her life, Falco offers to help her and, in doing so, he gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving stolen ingots, dangerous and dark political machinations, and, most hazardous of all, one Helena Justina, a brash, indominable senator's daughter connected to the very traitors that Falco has sworn to expose.

Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Lindsey: - Lindsey Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, England. After taking an English degree at Oxford and working for the civil service for thirteen years, she "ran away to be a writer." Her internationally bestselling novels featuring ancient Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco include Venus in Copper, The Iron Hand of Mars, Nemesis and Alexandria. She is also the author of Rebels and Traitors, set during the English Civil War. Davis is the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, the highest accolade for crime writers, as well as the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel award.