Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
In the long, hot Roman Summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-worked vigiles enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is foced to accept.

Lindsey Davis' twelfth novel wittily explores Roman publishing and banking, taking us from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage, to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences...

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker. A Marcus Didius Falco Novel. Arrow, ISBN: 9780099515173 (February, 2009), 336 p., £7.99.

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
When the rich banker and publisher Chrysippus is murdered, Marcus Didius Falco must track a killer through the streets of ancient Rome, where a tangled web of lies, greed, betrayal, and sexual liasons awaits him, and he must race against time to discover the truth before he becomes the next victim.

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker. A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446679062 (September, 2002), 372 p., $12.95.

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
When a wealthy Athenian banker is found gruesomely murdered, Marcus Didius Falco must scour the seedy streets of ancient Rome to hunt down the killer.

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker. A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892967404 (July, 2001), 372 p., $24.95 (?).

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
In the long hot Roman summer of AD74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare time poet, gives a reading for his family and friends. Things get out of hand as usual. The event is taken over by Aurelius Chrysippus, a wealthy Greek banker and patron to a group of struggling writers, who offers to publish Falco's work - a golden opportunity that rapidly palls. A visit to the Chrysippus scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder so when Petronius Longus, the over-work ed vigils enquiry chief, commissions him to investigate, Falco is forced to accept. Lindsey Davis' twelfth Falco novel wittily explores Roman publishing and banking, two fields with striking contemporary resonance and rich sources of satire.

The trail leads from the jealousies of authorship and the mire of patronage, to the darker financial world, where default can have fatal consequences...

Lindsey Davis: Ode to a Banker. Arrow, ISBN: 0099298201 (June, 2001), 352 p., £6.99.