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NY: St. Martin, 1992. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. . "Set in 72 B.C., during the slave revolt led by Spartacus, Saylor's ( Roman Blood ) second historical mystery follows Roman PI Gordianus the Finder to the resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples. The cousin and factotum of Marcus Licinius Crassus, the wealthiest man in Rome, has been bludgeoned to death, apparently by two slaves who have run away. An ancient Roman law decrees that when a master is killed by a slave, the remainder of the household's slaves must be slaughtered. Gordianus and his adopted son Eco have three days to find the real murderer and save the villa's other 99 slaves. A convoluted plot reveals fraud, embezzlement and arms smuggling (spears and swords traded for silver and jewels); sensuously written subplots hinge on arcanic poisons and clandestine love affairs among a cast that includes a Crassus's second-rate philosopher-in-residence and a retired actor who doubles as a female impersonator. Richly detailed… Read More

NY: Mysterious Press, 2002. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The thirteenth book in the Marcus Didius Falco series.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. First edition, so stated. Tiny rubbed spot at head of spine else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. INSCRIBED COPY. Short inscription by Banks at half-title page; ""for - - / Best wishes, / Oliver Banks." 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work. The murder of a New York art dealer leads Amos Hatcher to Rome and to a killer obsessed with the sixteenth-century artist Caravaggio . Inscribed Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1984. 1st ed. Not for Resale stamp at top of pages, two lines drawn at page edges else near fine in dust jacket, chipping at spine ends, a couple of closed tears . 2nd Amos Hatcher-art historical detective work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

Woodstock, VT, U.S.A.: Foul Play Press, 1991. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Anthropologist Penny Springs and Archaeoligist Sir Toby travel to a Roman villa situated on top of an unexcavated catacomb and murder.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

London: UK: Century Books, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Imperial Rome. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. With three maps. In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite—a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor." This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. No one could believe that a country-born army man might win… Read More

N.Y.: Scribners, 1996. 1st US edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. A Jonathan Argyll art-world title. Rome. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Century, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 8th book in Falco sries of Ancient Rome. A Marcus Didius Falco historical mystery. Jacket by Colin Hadley. Nobody was poisoned at the dinneer for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite surprising...One one night, a man is killed and Rome's Chief of Spies is left for dead. Soon sleuth Marcus is plunged into the fiercly competitive world of olive oil-production. Political intrigue, an exotic Spanish dancer and impending fatherhood, all add to Falco's troubles.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Blakeney: Glos. UK: Scorpion Press, 1996. 1st ed. Fine . ONE OF 15 LETTERED (this being letter "K") COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH DAVIS and PETER LOVESEY who wrote appreciation. Fine in navy blue goatskin with blue , black and green marbled paper sides, blue top edge and green end papers in transparent dust wrapper. The 8th book in Falco series of Ancient Rome. Laid in is a note on Scorpion Press letterhead describing the De Luxe Specifications : "The de luxe presentation copies are produced in small numbers as they are intended primarily for the use of the author, contributor, editor, publisher and others associated with the authors work. These books are given a letter rather than a number and are especially handsome, bound in goatskin rather than bonded leather with five raised bands. The spine blocking is horizontal because of the raised bands. In addition these books contain the signature of the contributor. Prices vary slightly due to the costs involved, the difficulty of… Read More

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1998. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. The 8th book in the Marcus Didius Falco series of Ancient Rome. Jacket by Colin Hadley.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Ballantine Books, 2002. HAMMETT NOMINEE. Danny Cray, a painter and amateur sleuth tries to protect the reputation of a wealth Washington lawyer. 1ST Ed. F/F. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. 1st ed. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. The ninth Marcus Corvinus historical thriller. Licinius Murena, a fish farmer, has been found murdered in one of his own eel tanks. The trouble is that a whole slew of people, from his wife downwards, were not shedding any tears at his departure. Marcus Corvinus is the man to find out. With the help, of course, of his clever wife, Perilla if she can spare the time from her newly acquired passion for gambling. As we follow the Byzantine thought-processes by which our hero solves the crime, we are entertained with enriching accounts of pisciculture and "Twelve Lines," the Roman precursor to backgammon. Review Slip and sheets from the American distributor laid in.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy.

London: Macmillan, 1996. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. In protective mylar dust jacket cover. Fine in dust jacket. Set in 13 B.C. Rome. Author's first novel and first in the ancient Roman mystery series featuring Claudia Seferius. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Scribners, 2000. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Jonathan Argyll / Flavia di Stefano art-world title. Rome. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London: Harper-Collins, 2000. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Pages beginning to show signs of age toning else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. A Jonathan Argyll / Flavia di Stefano art-world title. Rome. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2004. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Heading to Egypt in search of a cure for his wife's mysterious illness, Gordianus the Finder and his ailing wife, Bethesda, arrive in a country struggling to recover from the war between Caesar and Pompey and dealing with the power struggle between Ptolemy and his sister Cleopatra, a situation that rapidly worsens when Bethesda vanishes. Gordianus the Finder, a private investigator in the 1st century BC in Rome, Italy, is featured in the tenth book in this series. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

London, United Kingdom: Century, 1994. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The author's sixth book, with Roman sleuth , Marcus Didius Falco. Rome, AD 72. Marcus, one-time Imperial agent has an insurmountable problem. the Emperor Vespasian has refused to elevate him to the middle rank and therefore he cannot marry his aristocratic love, Helena Justina. But when Anacrites, Vespasian's chief spy asks Falco to undertake a mission to the East, he decides that the best solution to problems at home is to take them abroad. While in Syria with Helena searching for a possible kidnapping victim, Falco discovers the body of a playwright who had been with an acting troupe from Rome. In order to discover the killer, Falco, an amateur poet, is hireds as the new writer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Scribners, 1988. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Carnevale in Rome. Author's 1st book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: UK: Century, 1999. 1st ed, a fine copy in dust jacket. Rome. The 11th Falco title. A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia"s story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his new responsibilities as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, and by the continuing search for a new partner, he turns her away. Immediately he regrets it. Gaia has been selected as the new Vestal Virgin, and when she disappears Falco is officially asked to investigate - closely watched by Titus Caesar, whose new ladylove Berenice is under suspicion from scandalmongers, and by his two ex-partners Petronius and Anacrites, who both have personal reasons to hope he will slip up.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Mysterious Press, 2000. 1st ed, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Rome. The 11th Falco title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.