- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Arrow; New edition edition (4 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099799715
- ISBN-13: 978-0099799719
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 203,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Falco is back from North Africa, with new-found respectability and a dead brother-in-law to cope with. Appointed to a post in the religious hierarchy--keeper of the city's sacred geese--Davis's imperial Roman sleuth soon finds himself caught up in the murder of a member of one of the sacred brotherhoods and the disappearance of the most likely new candidate for the order of vestal virgins. His wife's brother tripped over the first of these and he himself was approached by the virgin, a small, frighteningly upper-class girl, and asked to help with her fears that one of her family meant her harm. Davis's command of the complexities of Roman society and attitudes has rarely been so impressively on display; Falco's world moves between the comic, the tragic and the horrid without missing a beat, or a trick. The portrait of the Emperor Vespasian that has intermittently grown up in the background of these excellent historical thrillers acquires more areas of light and shadow, and the love story of the low-rent public informer Falco and his aristocratic wife Julia becomes more touching. Davis's book Two For the Lions won the Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger for historical thrillers. --Roz Kaveney
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Falco returns home to Rome for his eleventh appearance in this highly popular and successful series. As a reward for his Census work Falco has at last been made an equestrian. But imperial favour coupled with his new duties as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry of the Senate and People of Rome bring their own complications. Not only is he now ensconsed in all the trappings of the Establishment and the state religion but Falco also has a troublesome new partner, Aelianus, to deal with. Private and public business merge as he is sent to investigate the disappearance of a young girl selected to be a Vestal Virgin. Closely watched by his ex-partner Petronius and the vigilies who are just waiting for him to slip up, Falco is sorely determined to solve this mystery.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A lovely continuation of the Falco saga! This time Marcus takes on the Vestal Virgins and the ancient cults. A reappearance of Helena's "difficult" brother Aelianus. Insanity, bloodshed, and ancient religions abound in this well-crafted version of the classic thriller. You'll find yourself turning the pages almost faster than you can read to reach the end. This is one of the most satisfying of Davis' novels since Silver Pigs.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Lindsay Davis is such an easy novelist to read with her regular protagonist Marcus Didius Falco it is difficult to put her books down. This novel is set in Rome during the first century AD where Falco is an informer (private eye). He has just returned to Rome after conducting a census for the emperor Vespasian when a very young girl visits him with the tale that someone in her family is trying to kill her. Falco dismisses this but when she disappears he is commissioned by the emperor to find her. The plot continues with Falco getting into a few scrapes before he solves the case.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is the eleventh novel in the mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and sleuth in Rome at the time of Vespasian. A series of books that have become hugely popular, so much so that the author is now at the forefront of historical mystery writers. It was probably a stroke of genius on her part to have novels that are extremely well researched and contain all the elements that would be and should be found in the Roman world of circa AD70, but to have a lead character who has the vocabulary of a present day New York cop.
In this novel Falco becomes embroiled with the religious cults of his beloved Rome after he is approached by a young girl, who claims that someone is trying to kill her. The girl has been proposed as a Vestal Virgin, a highly sought after position, although most of the city believe that the voting is fixed and that another girl will win. Falco and Helena are having dinner a few days later with helea's parents, when Camillus Aelianus returns home shaken to the core at discovering a man's dead body in a Sacred Grove.
Falco has to put his detective's hat on once again, but somewhat reluctantly after all he has recently been given the singular honour of Procurator of the Sacred Geese and he is finding out that the ones with feathers on that strut about and make that stupid noise are not half as attractive as those that haven't and don't . . .
In this novel Falco becomes embroiled with the religious cults of his beloved Rome after he is approached by a young girl, who claims that someone is trying to kill her. The girl has been proposed as a Vestal Virgin, a highly sought after position, although most of the city believe that the voting is fixed and that another girl will win. Falco and Helena are having dinner a few days later with helea's parents, when Camillus Aelianus returns home shaken to the core at discovering a man's dead body in a Sacred Grove.
Falco has to put his detective's hat on once again, but somewhat reluctantly after all he has recently been given the singular honour of Procurator of the Sacred Geese and he is finding out that the ones with feathers on that strut about and make that stupid noise are not half as attractive as those that haven't and don't . . .
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Not sure why Falco is so raved about
Intrigued by the blurb ('hilarious'), I picked up One Virgin Too Many during a recent trip to the Maldives (not a lot else to do there, you see). Read more
Published on 17 Mar 2009 by Feanor
Falco 11: a little girl is in trouble
This is the eleventh in a series of excellent detective stories set in Vespasian's Roman Empire and featuring the informer Marcus Didius Falco. Read more
Published on 20 July 2008 by Marshall Lord
they get better and better
This book is a delight from start to finish. Lindsey Davis wears her scholarship very lightly, she brings ancient Rome alive and yet you never feel she's pushing her scholarship... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2000 by "victoriacorby"
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