The twelfth novel featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco explores the Roman spheres of poetics and banking. When a rich banker family becomes patron to a group of struggling writers and is then murdered, Falco is sent to investigate.
- ISBN10 0712680349
- ISBN13 9780712680349
- Publish Date 1 June 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Century
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English