or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
61 used & new from £0.01
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Venus in Copper: A Falco Novel
 
See larger image 

See all 2 customer images
Share your own customer images
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Venus in Copper: A Falco Novel (Paperback)

by Lindsey Davis (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.29 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £0.70 (10%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 weeks.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

58 used from £0.01 2 collectible from £1.75
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover Order it used
Paperback £7.99 £4.99 25 used & new from £2.48
Mass Market Paperback (Reprint) 2 used & new from £2.98
Audio CD (Audiobook) £15.65 £15.65 8 used & new from £4.99
Audio Cassette (Audiobook) Order it used
Audio Download (Unabridged) £12.70 £8.89

Frequently Bought Together

Venus in Copper: A Falco Novel + Shadows in Bronze (Falco 02) + The Iron Hand of Mars (Falco 04)
Price For All Three: £17.25

Some of these items ship sooner than the others. Show details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Shadows in Bronze (Falco 02)

Shadows in Bronze (Falco 02)

by Lindsey Davis
4.3 out of 5 stars (15)  £5.97
The Iron Hand of Mars (Falco 04)

The Iron Hand of Mars (Falco 04)

by Lindsey Davis
4.1 out of 5 stars (10)  £4.99
Poseidon's Gold (Falco 05)

Poseidon's Gold (Falco 05)

by Lindsey Davis
4.3 out of 5 stars (6)  £5.99
The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

by Lindsey Davis
4.8 out of 5 stars (22)  £5.49
Last Act in Palmyra (Falco 07)

Last Act in Palmyra (Falco 07)

by Lindsey Davis
4.0 out of 5 stars (9)  £5.97
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099831708
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099831709
  • Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 10.9 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 223,963 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category:

    #35 in  Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Authors, A-Z > D > Davis, Lindsey

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

In the heyday of the Roman Empire a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is eventually bailed out and promptly accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe.


From the Back Cover

Rats are always bigger than you expect...'
Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's hangdog investigator, hates sharing a cell with a rodent - though being bailed by his old mother is almost as embarrassing. His highborn girlfriend can't decide if she wants him and Titus Caesar's reward for past services is a wet fish. Hoping for a better life, or at least a better apartment, he takes on new clients.
On the elegant slopes of the Pincian Hill, three nouveaux riches freedmen with two flashy wives are under siege by a clever redhead. Severina Zotica has a foul-mouthed parrot, an odd connection with a snake dancer - and a very suspicious past. As he pursues this flame-haired fortune-hunter, Falco finds himself beset by violent rent-racketeers, poisoners, and women without consciences who have dangerous designs on him...
'Another redolent dip into corruption in Vespasian's Rome...original and delightful' Sunday Times

'The most purely entertaining of recent crime novels' New Statesman and Society

'Original and endearing...one can only hope that Falco will be around for as long as Flashman' Time Out
See all Product Description

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Venus in Copper: A Falco Novel
77% buy the item featured on this page:
Venus in Copper: A Falco Novel 4.6 out of 5 stars (11)
£6.29
Shadows in Bronze (Falco 02)
9% buy
Shadows in Bronze (Falco 02) 4.3 out of 5 stars (15)
£5.97
The Silver Pigs
7% buy
The Silver Pigs 4.8 out of 5 stars (22)
£5.49
The Iron Hand of Mars (Falco 04)
4% buy
The Iron Hand of Mars (Falco 04) 4.1 out of 5 stars (10)
£4.99
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

11 Reviews
5 star:
 (7)
4 star:
 (4)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.6 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the first three!!!, 11 Oct 2006
Excellent plotting and great (but gradual) character development. Stick with the series at least this far to get the benefits.

I liked the first Falco book but thought the second flagged a bit at the beginning. However the end of the second really picks and leads you straight into the third which was the best for me so far.

I really like Falco he is a 'woman's' idea of an attractive hero and he has strong sense of morality which gets him into lots of trouble.

If I were suddenly to find myself in the scary times of ancient Rome I would look him out immediately.

It is hard to say too much without spoiling any of the excellent plotting that runs through the books so far. Be sure to read them in order though as they really do follow each other on. In a way you cannot really judge them alone as the characters really develop and I think it is nice to see that unfold. Perhaps you should view them as one big book!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Snakes Alive, 7 Mar 2007
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)   
This review is from: Venus in Copper (Audio CD)

This is the third novel in the mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and sleuth. 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 Rome in AD70, but to have a lead character who has the vocabulary of a present day New York cop. In this the third novel Falco is starting to feel like an old friend.

Falco is trying to live down the indignity of being released from jail with the help of his mother of all people and he has accepted a case from some rich private clients. He is also in the middle of trying to entice his girlfriend Helena Justina to come and live with him, though why a senator's daughter, especially one who has just lost their baby, would wish to live in the hovel he calls home is anybody's guess.

When the client Falco is supposedly protecting dies, he is immediately re-hired by none other than the chief suspect. The crux of the matter is that Falco must find and expose a woman, a fortune hunter, who has lost more husbands to accidents than it can be believed possible.

Falco has more than a little excitement during the investigation, including a brush with a female contortionist who has a very interesting snake act. He also has the tremendous honour, or otherwise of a "friendly" visit from Titus Caesar himself, right in the middle of Falco attempting to cook a huge turbot without the aid of every chef's must have, a fish kettle.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best book she has written, 14 Nov 2000
Every book she writes is great but this is my personal number one. A book with every twist and turn you could what from a first class mystery, sex, violance, drama Lindsey has got them all into one novel...ENJOY!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars very enjoyable

Having read all "gordianus the finder" and looking round for something more I discovered this series - the characters are well drawn and it's a satisfying read.
Published 4 months ago by Maccoll Hamish

4.0 out of 5 stars Book service
A truly excellent service with wide choice of books to choose from and much better than going to book shops using up petrol and probably coming home disappointed. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Jeremy G. Dutton

4.0 out of 5 stars Falco number 3 begins in a cell with a large rat
At the start of this third book in the series, informer Marcus Didius Falco is not the happiest man in Vespasian's Rome. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Marshall Lord

5.0 out of 5 stars Falco 3 - another enjoyable BBC Radio drama
'Venus in Copper.' Another enjoyable adaptation of a Lindsey Davis Falco adventure. I hope that the BBC carries on with this series, but only if Anton Lesser plays Falco, because... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2007 by LJM

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, moving and a superb plot: what more could you want?
In this third volume of Lindsey Davis' wonderful series, Marcus Didius Falco, the intrepid Roman investigator, has just suffered the utter humiliation of being bailed from gaol by... Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2007 by S. Bailey

5.0 out of 5 stars Snakes Alive

This is the third novel in the mystery series featuring Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and sleuth. Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2006 by J. Chippindale

4.0 out of 5 stars Venus cast in Copper
If you're a Falco fan you'll enjoy it as much as the others; if not, you won't. What I really wish is that you'd take it off my introductory page. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2006 by Merrimac

4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable Roman detective thriller.
Anyone who has a taste for history but needs to take it in a more palatable form will enjoy this detective novel set in roman times. Read more
Published on 27 Dec 2000

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject












i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.