![]() ![]() ![]() The plot races along even faster than Helena Justina’s carriage driving, with plenty of unlikely twists and turns. I’ve read The Silver Pigs many times since it first appeared, and listened to the BBC radio adaptation starring Anton Lesser at least twice, and it’s just as fresh on an umpteenth encounter as on the first. When the trail turns murderous, Falco finds himself travelling to the godforsaken wilds of Britain, where he encounters two perils - working as a slave in the silver mines, and the beautiful, classy senator’s daughter Helena Justina. Instead, he finds himself commissioned to investigate a murky financial scam, which soon turns out to have even murkier political overtones. When he has the opportunity to rescue a pretty aristocratic girl from the thugs who are chasing her through the Forum, he naturally hopes for a reward from her wealthy family. ![]() ![]() Hard-bitten and not very successful private informer Marcus Didius Falco is short of funds, as ever. Emperor Vespasian and his sons Titus and Domitian are secondary characters. Set in Rome and Britain in 70 AD, immediately after the political turmoil of the Year of Four Emperors, this historical mystery launched the immensely (and deservedly) popular Falco series. ![]()
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