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Falco On Vacation
Apr. 22nd, 2008 12:09 amJan 2008
Scandal takes a Holiday / See Delphi and Die - Lindsey Davis - Arrow Books, 2004 / 2005
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It’s been a while since I have read a Lindsey Davis so it was nice to catch up on the doings of Marcus Didius Falco, although it is clear that she has had a few problems maintaining the standard. There are two main difficulties, firstly in finding original settings for the stories now that she has covered every conceivable aspect of life in the capital from gladiators to aqueducts to the legal system, and secondly in reconciling Falco’s new-found respectability as a middle-class father of two with his dodgy occupation as an informer. The former is solved neatly - in these two books Davis gets Falco out of Rome by sending him on working holidays, first to the domestic port of Ostia and then to the ancient ruins of Greece. The latter proves to be more problematic and perhaps explains why neither of these books is really a satisfying mystery.
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Scandal takes a Holiday / See Delphi and Die - Lindsey Davis - Arrow Books, 2004 / 2005
* * * / * * *
It’s been a while since I have read a Lindsey Davis so it was nice to catch up on the doings of Marcus Didius Falco, although it is clear that she has had a few problems maintaining the standard. There are two main difficulties, firstly in finding original settings for the stories now that she has covered every conceivable aspect of life in the capital from gladiators to aqueducts to the legal system, and secondly in reconciling Falco’s new-found respectability as a middle-class father of two with his dodgy occupation as an informer. The former is solved neatly - in these two books Davis gets Falco out of Rome by sending him on working holidays, first to the domestic port of Ostia and then to the ancient ruins of Greece. The latter proves to be more problematic and perhaps explains why neither of these books is really a satisfying mystery.
( Read more... )