| A Body in the Bathhouse Contributor(s): Davis, Lindsey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0446691704 ISBN-13: 9780446691703 Publisher: Mysterious Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: The 13th novel featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the fervor of home improvement that's sweeping the Roman Empire and Falco's own household, specifically the bath house--where a body turns up. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002023071 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.95 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 13th novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco finds the Roman P.I. in the midst of a home improvement that brings an unwanted "visitor" to his bathhouse. Poor Marcus Didius Falco: The two shiftless contractors working on his new Roman bath house have left him with a horrible smell emanating from the below-ground furnace...and some gruesome site debris. Meanwhile, the king of the Atrebtes tribe in faraway Britain is planning his own home improvements. But the spectacular Fishbourne Palace he is building is beset by numerous financial problems... not to mention the "accidents" that seem to plague the construction site. Enter P.I. Falco to investigate the scene and make things right. But trouble starts anew when his favorite contractors from Rome appear on the scene, and Falco realizes that someone with murderous intentions is now after him.... |