Poseidon's Gold: A murdered legionary and Falco is the prime suspect

Product Description Rome, AD 72: Marcus Didius Falco has returned home from a six-month mission to the German legions. When an ex-legionary friend of his is found viciously stabbed to death, Falco is the prime suspect. Now, he has only three days to prove he is not a murderer, to trace the real suspect, amass evidence and win a fortune. “Fast-moving, funny and full of atmosphere; if you haven’t met Marcus Didius Falco before, start here.”–_Mail on Sunday_ From the Inside Flap "GREAT STUFF...A classic hard-boiled, smart-mouth detective who happens to work in ancient Rome." --Molly Ivins Los Angeles Daily News After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead brother, Festus, are true. Then the chief tarnisher of Festus's good name is murdered, and Marcus becomes the prime suspect. Someone is definitely fiddling with the scales of justice. The more Marcus hunts for the thread that will lead him out of this doom-laden labyrinth of misery and mystery, the less his life is worth. Except, as seems likely, as a meal for the Emperor's hungry lions... "AN INTRIGUING TALE...COMPULSIVE READING." --Roanoke Times & World-News "A VIVIDLY REALIZED IMPERIAL ROME--NOISY, DENSE AND DANGEROUS." --Publishers Weekly Rome, AD 72. Marcus Falco returns from a 6-month mission to the German legions. But trouble awaits him - his apartment has been wrecked and someone is demanding money from him. Worse is to come when that person is killed, and Falco is the prime suspect Worse still, the only client Falco can get is his mother – who wants him to clear the family name.Then just as Falco thinks things can only get better, fate takes a turn for the worse.