- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (15 Jun 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099831805
- ISBN-13: 978-0099831808
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 410,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Splendid...mystery, pace and wit." - Ellis Peters
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The sixth novel featuring Marcus Didius Falco. Falco and his girlfriend Helena find themselves attached to a travelling comedy troupe who are touring through Syria. Falco finds himself entangled in another murder case - a second-rate playwright is murdered, leaving the comedy troupe without a bard.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of her best,
By jj00@dial.pipex.com (Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Last Act in Palmyra (Paperback)
I find it difficult to understand why other reviewers were disappointed by this book. To my mind, it is one of Lindsey's best (and yes, I have read them all). Apart from anything else, it has the most memorable plot - one of comparatively few genuine whodunnits in the Falco series - and the locations are spot on. Visit places like Petra and Palmyra today, and you can just picture Falco going about his investigation. Difficult to fault!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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In which Falco and Helena join an acting troupe in Syria,
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This review is from: Last Act in Palmyra (Paperback)
This is the sixth in a series of excellent detective stories set in Vespasian's Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Informers in ancient Rome were something between a private detective and a government spy.
Falco is sent on a mission to the middle east on behalf of the Imperian Roman authorities, and his girlfriend Helena Justina insists on coming along. During the mission they attach themselves to a travelling troupe of actors who are performing a tour of the ten main cities in an area which roughly corresponds to modern day Syria. And when one of the members of the acting troupe is murdered, Falco and Helena have another mystery to solve ... There are very differing opinions among fans of Lindsey Davis about which of her books is best. I can only say that I thought all of these books deserved either four stars or five stars, and this is one of the books I gave five stars, because it almost made me feel as if I had actually visited the middle east in 72 AD. I initially tried this series because I had enjoyed the "Cadfael" mediaeval detective stories by Ellis Peters. Where Cadfael is excellent, Falco is brilliant. Ellis Peters herself (or to use her real name, Edith Pargeter) said of the early books of the series, 'Lindsey Davis continues her exploration of Vespasian's Rome and Marcus Didius Falco's Italy with the same wit and gusto that made "The Silver Pigs" such a dazzling debut and her rueful, self-deprecating hero so irresistibly likeable.' Funny, exciting, and based on a painstaking effort to re-create the world of the early Roman empire between 70 and 76 AD. If you have met and enjoyed either the Cadfael or Thraxas series, this is even better. It isn't absolutely essential to read these stories in sequence, as the mysteries Falco is trying to solve are all self-contained stories and each book can stand on its own. Having said that, there is some ongoing development of characters and relationships and I think reading them in the right order does improve the experience. The full Falco series, in chronological order, consists at the moment of: The Silver Pigs Shadows in Bronze Venus in Copper The Iron Hand of Mars Poseidon's Gold Last Act in Palmyra Time to Depart A Dying Light in Corduba Three Hands in the Fountain Two for the Lions One Virgin Too Many Ode to a Banker A Body in the Bath house The Jupiter Myth The Accusers Scandal taks a Holiday See Delphi and Die Saturnalia Alexandria Nemesis I have can warmly recommend all of these.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
No acting: a very real classic of humour,
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This review is from: Last Act in Palmyra (Falco 06) (Paperback)
This was my first Falco book - and it hooked me on Lindsey Davis. I think it's suggestive that at the time I was confined to hospital and yet had to be cautioned against laughing so loudly.
The absurdity is that Falco, an aspiring amateur poet as well as informer, has as little acting talent as I have, but must be disguised as one on a special mission to the Middle East of the Roman period. His ham acting persists, area to area, among a genuine acting troupe, among people after people, inluding disapproving early Christians. These receive a summary response. The mission succeeds - in a sense, for Falco must as usual struggle to force his expenses out of a notoriously penny-pinching government. This takes almost as much effort as the mission itself. And all the time, hovering somewhere in background or foreground, is the indispensable Helena Justina, partner to Falco. This, I believe, would have me doubled up with laughter on my (or even someone else's) death bed - a fine way to go for all.
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