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Chargement... Une Veuve romaine (1991)par Lindsey Davis
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Love and real estate and money and why it's better to be sure to know what you're getting in the first two are the concerns in Falco's investigations into a woman who has been widowed 3 times in short order for clients who say they don't want their associate to be the 4th corpse. This one seemed a bit slow to me, with minimal though acute, political entanglements. The flounder scenes are precious though. A pleasant and amusing diversion, marred only by blatant anachronisms, some of them more than a thousand years out of date. Davis frequently has Falco using French terms, eight hundred years before the French language even existed. There are so many of these howlers, one can only assume that she is putting them in intentionally, so as to annoy pedants like me. De regreso de su periplo por Italia (La estatua de Bronce), el investigador Marco Didio Falco es contratado por el emperador para llevar a cabo un trabajo en Hacienda. Pero, desgraciadamente, Marco comete un imperdonable error contable que le lleva directamente a la mítica cárcel de Latumia, donde el ruido de las ratas le atormenta día y noche. Será gracias a la labor continua y tenaz de su madre (que progresivamente va cobrando más importáncia en la serie) que Marco conseguirá recuperar la libertad y aclarar el embrollo en el que se ha metido. Una trama muy característica del género negro, con unas gotas de humor (a Sam Spade o a Dick Tracy nunca le libraría de la prisión su madre) y a través de la cual queda expuesta de un modo fiel y veraz la vida cotidiana en la Roma del año 70 d.c. Tercera del detective romano. La onda irónica que pretende darle la autora no me gusta o tal vez sea la traducción. Pero muy interesante la recreación histórica del día a día de la gente del común en la Roma Imperial de Tito. unos libertos se conectan con nuestro detective por que temen que una caza fortunas mate a uno de ellos. y en el medio todo los chanchullos especulativos inmobiliarios. Mientras el amorío entre Marco y Helena sigue
"Period details, humor and Falco's modern sensibility add up to another sterling performance from Davis." "Falco, as always a better adventurer than a detective, goes through all his customary high-jinks, described with all his customary self-infatuated facetiousness, en route to a denouement that implicates half of Imperial Rome in the killing." Est contenu dansFait l'objet d'une adaptation dans
Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is desperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison-though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity. Things go from bad to worse when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidentally, leaving him up against a female contortionist, her extra-friendly snake, indigestible cakes, and rent racketeers. All the while Falco tries to lure Helena Justina to live with him, a dangerous proposition given the notorious instability of Roman real estate. In a case of murder as complicated as he ever faced, Falco is at his very finest. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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