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by Lindsey Davis (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Century; 1st edition edition (3 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 071267702X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712677028
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 777,451 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 last 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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5.0 out of 5 stars Once again, Ms. Davis provides us with a great read., 2 Aug 1999
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Ms. Davis continues her solid storytelling with this latest edition of "the man they love to blame" M.D.Falco. The humor so apparent in the earlier novels is here, as well as, the wonderful development of each character. In the past novels in this series, Ms. Davis has shown a strong ability to paint people and places that readers can "see". ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY certainly follows this pattern, but in the last ten pages I think Ms. Davis elevates here skill to a much higher level than in her other novels. I find these ten pages grab the reader and do not release until the reader is absolutely exhausted by the drama and tension of the ending. My one complaint is that the story ends. Next June is a long wait.
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4.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining historical novel (and an okay mystery), 12 Jul 1999
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Not the best written mystery in this wonderful series, this book is nevertheless a very pleasant read. The characterizations of Falco and his friends and family remain sharp, the settings and historical detail are, as always, impressive, and there are enough unanswered questions about the lead character's personal life to ensure the reader there is more to come. The author continues to provide her readers with the delightful personal history of Marcus Didius Falco (good-hearted family man, hopeless romantic, cynical republican and occasional scoundrel) against the backdrop of ancient Rome. That said, the plot itself is not as satisfying as prior novels in the series as Falco sorts out the too predictable secrets of one of Rome's most powerful religious families. With characters and dialog this wonderful though, questions about the mystery plot seem of minor importance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Eleventh Book in a Terrific Series, 20 Mar 2007
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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