Lindsey Davis. (2009). Alexandria: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Series, Book 19. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Lindsey Davis. 2009. Alexandria: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Series, Book 19. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Lindsey Davis, Alexandria: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Series, Book 19. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2009.

Lindsey Davis. Alexandria: Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries Series, Book 19. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2009.

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   • bioText: Lindsey Davis was born and raised in Birmingham, England. After taking an English degree at Oxford and working for the civil service for thirteen years, she "ran away to be a writer." Her internationally bestselling novels featuring ancient Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco include Venus in Copper, The Iron Hand of Mars, Nemesis and Alexandria. She is also the author of Rebels and Traitors, set during the English Civil War. Davis is the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, the highest accolade for crime writers, as well as the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and the Authors' Club Best First Novel award.
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In first century A.D. Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so in A.D. 77, Falco and his wife, Helena Justina, with others in tow, travel to Alexandria, Egypt. But they aren't there long before Falco finds himself in the midst of nefarious doings—when the Librarian of the great library is found dead, under suspicious circumstances.
Falco quickly finds himself on the trail of dodgy doings, malfeasance, deadly professional rivalry, more bodies and the lowest of the low—book thieves! As the bodies pile up, it's up to Falco to untangle this horrible mess and restore order to a disordered universe.

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     "The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans."

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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "The twisty plot with its various false leads and the author's plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series."
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   • content: "The period detail is interesting; the characters, both main and secondary, are fully fleshed out."
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     March 16, 2009
     A locked-room murder provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge in Davis's 19th novel to feature the first-century Roman sleuth (after 2007's Saturnalia
     ). In the spring of A.D. 77, while on vacation with his family in Alexandria, Egypt, Falco is stunned to get word that Theon, the Great Library's head librarian, with whom he just dined, has been found dead with neither marks of violence on the body nor evidence of how the killer got away from the scene of the crime. Falco probes the academic politics surrounding the Great Library to determine whether one of Theon's potential successors was the culprit. Other deaths follow, including that of a philosophy student, mauled by a crocodile that escaped from the local zoo. While the impossible crime's solution may disappoint some readers, the twisty plot with its various false leads and the author's plausible depiction of ancient Alexandria make this one of the stronger entries in this solid historical series.

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     April 1, 2009
     The 19th adventure of Marcus Didius Falco, the Roman imperial agent and informer (Saturnalia, 2007, etc.), takes him to Alexandria in 77 CE.
     
     Falco has nothing on his mind but sightseeing in the colonies with his pregnant wife and rambunctious daughters, but their arrival at his uncle's home in Egypt is almost instantly marred by that ruin of any vacation, the tedious dinner guest. The librarian is so ill-tempered that it's a relief when he turns up dead in a hackneyed locked-room setup. As Falco investigates, he learns that the politics of the famed Library of Alexandria are just as petty as those of any modern academic analogue. The grasping lawyer, the silent astronomer, the equivocating philosopher, the practical zoologist and the public-minded curator are all competing for the dead man's position in a corrupt bureaucracy. Beset by every manner of distraction from dancing girls to crocodiles to his own incorrigible father, Falco still finds himself more and more deeply immersed in the scholars' schemes. Though others solve the puzzles of the substance that killed the librarian and how the door came to be locked, and Falco grossly misjudges the character of the murderer, his failures ruffle his smug sense of self-satisfaction not at all.
     
     Like watching a slideshow of vacation photos narrated by your most pompous relative—predictable, condescending and clichd.

     (COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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     April 1, 2009
     Even spies age, but fortunately Marcus Didius Falco"informer" for the Roman emperor in the first century C.E.is aging with grace. What makes Davis's long-standing series so indelible is the expert blend of Falco's wisecracking observations and crazy family life with some masterly suspense. In this latest, Falco has taken his pregnant wife, two daughters, and brother-in-law to Alexandria on what is ostensibly a vacation. (They're staying at the house of his wayward uncle and the uncle's partner.) In fact, Falco is charged with keeping his eye on things, and indeed trouble brews right awaythe Librarian of Alexandria's great library is found dead in his sealed office. There's been plenty of controversy surrounding the Librarian already, and the controversy over who will succeed him turns bloody. Who knew that the race for a top library spot could be so intriguing? The mystery is intricately plotted, the characters are well drawn, and Falco is as engaging a protagonist as ever, still tough but wiser and more reflective, too. Another winner for historical mystery fans. [See Prepub Mystery, "LJ" 1/09.]Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"

     Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     December 1, 2009
     Adult/High School-This is the 17th entry in Davis's popular series about a Roman private "informer" (read private investigator). He normally works for the emperor, but while on vacation in Egypt with his family, Falco is pressed into service as the lead investigator in a high-profile case. The head librarian at Alexandria has been found dead, and all indications suggest murder. The mystery is of the cozy whodunit type with plenty of false trails and suspects galore, clever repartee, and layers of motives to dig through. The setting is lush first-century Egypt, and the period detail is interesting; the characters, both main and secondary, are fully fleshed out. There are some odd notes, such as Falco's offhand references to forensic techniques far ahead of his time and his modern attitude toward his wife, which can be distracting. A very large cast of recurring characters with numerous variations on their names makes this a difficult book to read as a stand-alone, but it should be popular in libraries that have mystery lovers or Falco devotees."Charli Osborne, Oxford Public Library, MI"

     Copyright 2009 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from May 1, 2009
     The nineteenth entry in Davis lively and consistently original series (after Saturnalia, in 2007) finds Roman investigator Marcus Didius Falco on vacation in Alexandria, Egypt. (His spirited wife, Helena, wants to see the Pyramids, and Falco himself could use a break from wrangling reprobates for the emperor.) But the pairs relaxation is short-lived when Theon, the head librarian of the citys Great Library, is found dead in a locked room. He might have been poisoned with oleander leaves, or perhaps one of his colleagues was angling for his job. Lawyers, astronomers, and zookeepers are among the suspects. But who hated the seemingly innocuous scholar enough to want him gone? More deaths follow, including one at the behest of a hungry crocodile. Also newly departed is Nibytas, a very old scholar and book lover who stole hundreds of the librarys scrolls. Davis vividly portrays first-century Egypt and Rome as jam-packed with scoundrels, sycophants, and a smattering of well-intentioned citizens. The author, a graduate of Oxford, pokes good-natured fun at academics: There is no scholar . . . who could bring off a murder, opines one of the suspects. Most need a scale diagram and instructions in three languages even to lace their shoes. One of the best entries in an outstanding series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)

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   • value: Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award
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   • value: Romantic Times Career Achievement Award Nominee

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