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London: Century, 1999. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This copy is SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Rome. The 11th Falco title. The innovative series puts hard-boiled detective Marcus Didius Falco, "the Sam Spade of ancient Rome" (Publishers Weekly), on the mean streets of the Eternal City. Now Davis returns to AD 74 with a riveting investigation into a missing child. Men are fools for love. And that includes Marcus Didius Falco. To please his beloved, the tough shamus has become Procurer of the Sacred Poultry (i.e., babysitter of the temple geese). It's steady work and good pay, but Falco is soon restless. So when a beautiful child, chosen to enter the secret order of Vestal Virgins, disappears, he grabs the case. He quickly discovers that greed and religious fervor are only a thread away from madness. And a little girl's life may be cut short, not… Leer más

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1991. 1st edition, June 1991, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Rome setting. "On her first night in Rome, Stevie Templeton finds herself in bed with a strange man. But that's only the first of a series of bizarre circumstances the Boston schoolteacher faces in this tale of love and hate, vulnerability and self-interest. A stranger reveals herself as Stevie's grandmother; Stevie discovers the mother she believed long dead; and Angel Concelli, a recently murdered movie star, turns out to be the sister Stevie never knew she had. When Angel's obsessed, married politician lover pursues Stevie, she becomes even more emotionally confused..." -- Library Journal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: UK: Macmillan, 1988. 1st ed. paper showing signs of age toning else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. 45 B.C.Julius Caesar is at the height of his power. The trial of Helvia, accused of murder & incest, defended by Cicero, results in political shenanigans which result in Caesat's assassination.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 43 B.C. Rome. 2nd in the Roman series. Set during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. While investigating a series of brutal and scandalous murders, Livinius gets a close-up look at Rome's descent from republican chaos into autocratic butchery. AS NEW IN SHRINK WRAP.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dj. 43 B.C. Rome. 2nd in the Roman series. Set during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. While investigating a series of brutal and scandalous murders, Livinius gets a close-up look at Rome's descent from republican chaos into autocratic butchery.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990. 1st ed, very minor soiling at page edges else a fine copy in dust jacket.348 pages, last seven pages blank, dramatis personae, full-page map of Imperial Rome, map of Italy, and in set map on same page. Italy AD 70. The 2nd Falco title. It's AD 70 and just another ordinary day for Falco--disposing of the odd corpse.kicking over the traces of a failed plot agianst the Emperor, making a bit on the side in stolen ingots and having a painful re-encounter with his lost lady-love, the beautiful and imperious Helena Justina. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Crown, 1989. 1st ed, a fine copy in dust jacket. Rome AD70. The 1st Falco title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1999. 1st St. Martin's Minotaur edition, October 1999 so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Paperback . Ancirnt Rome. 4th in the highly regarded SPQR series. A near fine copy. When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City-even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs, coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued, Decius requests and is given permission by the Egyptian Pharaoh to investigate the heinous crime. What he discovers is beyond shocking. And when the corpse of a famous courtesan mysteriously turns up in his bed, Decius suddenly finds himself entangled in a web of conspiracy far more widespread and… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 2001. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket with closed tear at rear corner. Sixth in the highly regarder SPQR series. "The first line of Roberts's (Saturnalia) sixth SPQR mystery, "I blame it all on Alexander the Great," sets the tone for this briskly paced, lighthearted Roman historical. Decius Caecillus Mettellus, the would-be playboy son of an illustrious family, plays reluctant sleuth. "Would-be" because his considerable intelligence causes him to be drafted into the most serious affairs of state. When his worst enemy, who could do him great harm, wins a tribuneship, Decius decides it's time to leave Rome. In addition, the family patriarchs, who are grooming him for public office, want him to have more military service. So Decius and his slave, Hermes, journey deep into Gaul, where Caius Julius Caesar is at war with the Helvetii. Caesar's legion faces an unknown number of the enemy, but the trouble really begins when the… Leer más

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The decaying abbey of San Redempto, standing in the shadows of the Vatican, has been forgotten by the Church. However, six of the seven paintigs of martyrs are stolen from its walls and the seventh--depicting the martydom of St. Agatha-- is identified as a long-lost tresaure most likely by Poussin. With these events comes the kind of attention that many have been working for years to avoid.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Century, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 9th book in Falco sries of Ancient Rome. This U.K. hardcover is the true First Edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 1995. 1st ediion. Pages are age-toned else Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The 7th Marcus Didius Falco mystery. Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now, as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime - and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1999. 1st ed. Light soiling at top of page edges else near fine in dust jacket. The ninth title in the Marcis Didius Falco series. In vino, veritas. But in the water supply of Rome, horroras Marcus Didius Falco is about to find out. Sharing an ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand. Small and evidently female, the hand suggests its owner met a terrifying fate. Naturally, Falco and Petro, formerly of the Vigiles, want to seize on it as their first big case. The officials of Rome, however, prefer to hush up the incident, since a population that riots at the drop of a toga might run wild if body parts are polluting their drinking water. Soon other delicate, dismembered hands are being found in Rome's two hundred miles of aqueduct. Now aided, inspired, and given critical clues by his wife, Helena, Falco & Partner are… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1ST.ED. FINE/FINE. Another in the long line of critically aclaimed Lindsey Davis's Marcus Falco series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1995. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED by Crespi at title page. The author's fifth book in the The Trouble With series. Rome..."Family problems lure Greenwich Village-based Roman expatriate Simona Griffo, last seen in The Trouble with Thin Ice, back to Rome, when her mother, Olga, leaves her husband to stay with a friend, art teacher Mirella Monti. Olga remains resolutely quiet about her motives, but when Tamar Deaton, one of Mirella's American students, is fatally stabbed while being robbed, she declares, "I want to get to the bottom of this killing." Simona, devoted to both her mother and Mirella, probes the affairs of Tamar and those of a prince in whose archives the victim had recently made a startling find. Her curiosity is also stirred by both Mirella's American suitor, who bankrolls the art school, and the latest doings of her own… Leer más

London: Hutchinson, 1991. 1st ed, a fine copy in dust jacket. Paper showing signs of age toning as usual. SIGNED COPY. Signed by Davis at title page. Italy AD 70. The 3rd Falco title.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan London 1996, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dj. Set in 13 B.C. Author's 2nd Claudia book; set in Rome & Sicily. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.