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Surprisingly, nobody is poisoned at the Society of Olive Oil Producers banquet; the attempted murder of Rome's chief spy occurs immediately afterward. Suspicion falls, quick as the Italian night, on the dinner's sinuous dancer, a lady who has already left for Corduba, Spain. Naturally, Marcus Didius Falco, the Philip Marlowe of Roman detectives, is dispatched to follow her. But he has pledged to stay with Helena, his pregnant, patrician wife, until she gives birth.
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cheeky b'stard
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Two for the Lions
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- By: Lindsey Davis
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- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Nothing's certain except death and taxes. Catching tax evaders for Emperor Vespasian looks like a plum position for Marcus Didius Falco, who has teamed up with his old boss, Anacrites, the crotchety chief spy of Rome. Soon, however, Falco is bogged down in bureaucracy, stuck at his stylus, and longing for a good murder to investigate. He gets one when someone kills Leonidas, the empire's official executioner.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 99
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 99
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Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on papyrus. Hell hath no fury like an author scorned, and when Chrysippus turns up murdered - in the library, no less - it's poetic justice. Appointed the official investigator, Falco's soon up to his stylus in outraged writers and shifty bankers.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Marcus Didius Falco is about to get involved in a nasty noir crime, involving gangsters, gladiators, and romance. For Falco, a relaxed visit to his wife Helena's relatives in Britain suddenly turns serious. He and his family are staying in London when Falco is summoned to the scene of a murder. The victim, Verovolcus, was a renegade with ties to Roman crime magnates operating in London, but he was also close to King Togidubnus. So when he is discovered dead, stuffed headfirst down a well, a tricky diplomatic situation develops that Falco must defuse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Usually love Simon Prebble as narrator BUT....
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The Accusers
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- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Fresh from a trip to far-flung Londinium in Britain, Falco needs to reestablish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of two powerful lawyers. The senator is convicted but then dies, apparently by suicide. It may have been a legal move to protect his heirs; Falco is hired to prove it was murder. As he shows off his talents in the role of advocate, Falco exposes himself to a tangle of upper-class secrets and powerful elements in Rome's legal hierarchy that may have unintended - if not fatal - consequences.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration quailty
- By Philicheeze on 08-10-18
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See Delphi and Die
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
It's AD 76, during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco has achieved much in his life. He's joined the equestrian rank, allowing him to marry Helena Justina, the woman he's been keeping time with the past few years. But that doesn't mean all is quiet for Falco, Helena, and their two young daughters. By trade he is an informer, a man who looks into sticky situations, and he's been hired to pry his errant brother-in-law away from a murder investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narrator
- By Linda on 05-23-18
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Scandal Takes a Holiday
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- By: Lindsey Davis
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- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, Falco is forced to admit his real reason for being there. Infamia, the pen name of the gossip columnist for the Daily Gazette, has gone missing, and his fellow scribes have employed Falco to bring him back from his drunken truancy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Falco always takes the tough cases...
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Rome, August AD 89. Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father's former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it's small cases - cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till - but this isn't a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get married in a big, showy ceremony as part of beginning a proper domestic life together.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narration
- By Bridget on 08-01-16
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The Third Nero
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- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Lucy Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In AD 90, following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another complex caper in ancient Rome
- By Amazon Customer on 01-04-18
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Enemies at Home
- The Flavia Albia Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Lindsey Davis
- Narrated by: Lucy Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 98
In ancient Rome, the number of slaves was far greater than that of free citizens. As a result, often the people Romans feared most were the "enemies at home," the slaves under their own roofs. Because of this, Roman law decreed that if the head of a household was murdered at home, and the culprit wasn't quickly discovered, his slaves - all of them, guilty or not - were presumed responsible and were put to death...without exception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book...
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Publisher's Summary
Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is desperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison - though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity.
Things go from bad to worse when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead whose husbands have a habit of dying accidentally, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes, and rent racketeers. All the while Falco tries to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorious instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, Falco is at his very finest.
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- J Graves
- 04-04-16
Wonderful sense of place
A great detective story set in Ancient Rome where the city and its futons become s character in the plot. Falco feels like an old friend. A good performance by Prebble although his accent mag be a bug refined. In some of the other audiobooks in the series, Christian Rodska gives a more textured performance.
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- TheToal
- 02-28-20
great story, great performance!
I read the books back in the 1990s and decided to give the audiobooks a try 20 odd years later. the stories are still great and the narrator is really, really good. well worth the money and the time to listen to it!
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- FarmGirl
- 03-26-17
Fantastic Book and Performance
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, absolutely
What did you like best about this story?
Character Building the humor and the drama
What about Simon Prebble’s performance did you like?
Great Performance
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Made me laugh at times and brought teas to my eyes.