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One Virgin Too Many: A Falco Novel (Paperback)

by Lindsey Davis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 74,157 in Books (See Bestsellers 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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From the author of THREE HANDS IN THE FOUNTAIN and TIME TO DEPART, a crime story featuring Marcus Didius Falco who is determined to solve the mystery of a young girl's disappearance despite his new imperial responsibilities, his troublesome new partner, Aelianus, and the jealous activities of his former partner Petronius.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Blood and gore galore!, 12 Sep 2000
By easundermeyer@yahoo.com (Columbus, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars they get better and better, 18 Sep 2000
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 at you. The plot rattles along at high speed, peopled as usual by a varied and eccentric cast of charecters. I particularly enjoyed the retired Vestal Virgin and Falso's reaction to her. Can't wait for the next one
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Eleventh in the Series, 3 Oct 2006
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
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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 . . .
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2.0 out of 5 stars 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 there, you see). Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great as usual
Lindsay Davis is such an easy novelist to read with her regular protagonist Marcus Didius Falco it is difficult to put her books down. Read more
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