falco, marcus didius (fictitious character)

In Rome, A.D. 75, a private investigator uncovers a bizarre murder mystery while digging up the floor of his bathhouse for renovations.

When human hands are discovered in Rome's aqueducts, Marcus Didios Falco and his partner Petronius Longus suspect a serial killer is at large, and together, the two men try to find him before he can strike again.

Informer Marcus Didius Falco's already complicated life becomes even more so when six-year-old Gaia Laelia, a candidate to become a Vestal Virgin, comes to him complaining that someone in her influential family is trying to kill her.

Roman private detective Marcus Didius Falco becomes involved in a slippery plot when he sets out to investigate an assassination attempt on the life of Chief Spy Anacrites, and uncovers scandal in the olive oil trade.

Informer Marcus Didius Falco's already complicated life becomes even more so when six-year-old Gaia Laelia, a candidate to become a Vestal Virgin, comes to him complaining that someone in her influential family is trying to kill her.

Imperial Rome's private investigator Marcus Didius Falco takes on a case involving the murder of a wealthy real estate developer.

In A.D. 70 Marcus Falco is on the trail of villain Barnabas who will stop at nothing to snatch power from the Emperor Vespasian.

While tracking down a runaway circus musician, Falco and his mistress are unjustly accused of a murder and join a traveling theater group to avoid arrest, unaware that the real killer is a member of the group and is looking to kill again.

Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and investigator in first-century Rome, is commissioned by Emperor Vespasian to find an important German prisoner who has escaped into the chaos of the Saturnalia festivities, leaving a decapitated corpse behind, and his job becomes more complicated when his married brother-in-law, a former lover of the fugitive, goes missing at the same time.