Ode to a Banker

About “Ode to a Banker”

In the hot Roman summer of AD 74, Marcus Didius Falco, private informer and spare-time poet, gives a reading for family and friends that gets out of hand, taken over by wealthy Greek banker Aurelius Chrysippus, who offers to publish Falco's work. A visit to Chrysippus's scriptorium implicates him in a gruesome literary murder, and Petronius Longus commissions Falco to investigate. The twelfth Falco novel explores Roman publishing and banking, tracing a trail from the jealousies of authorship to a darker financial world where default can prove fatal. A 2000 novel by Lindsey Davis.