Lindsey Davis

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Lindsey Davis

Born 1949
Birmingham, England
Occupation novelist
Nationality British
Writing period 1989 - present
Genres historical whodunnit
Notable work(s) Marcus Didius Falco
Official website

Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize, she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine Woman's Realm.

Her interest in history and archaeology led to her writing a historical novel about Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis (The Course of Honour), for which she couldn't find a publisher. She tried again, and her first novel featuring the Roman "detective", Marcus Didius Falco, The Silver Pigs, set in the same time period and published in 1989, was the start of her runaway success as a writer of historical whodunnits. A further seventeen Falco novels have followed, as well as The Course of Honour, which was finally published in 1998. She has won many literary awards. She was honorary president of the Classical Association from 1997 to 1998.

The eighteenth Falco novel, Saturnalia, was published in the UK on 1 February 2007.

Contents

[edit] Published works

[edit] Marcus Didius Falco

  1. The Silver Pigs (1989)
  2. Shadows in Bronze (1990)
  3. Venus in Copper (1991)
  4. The Iron Hand of Mars (1992)
  5. Poseidon's Gold (1993)
  6. Last Act in Palmyra (1994)
  7. Time to Depart (1995)
  8. A Dying Light in Corduba (1996)
  9. Three Hands in the Fountain (1997)
  10. Two for the Lions (1998)
  11. One Virgin Too Many (1999)
  12. Ode to a Banker (2000)
  13. A Body in the Bath House (2001)
  14. The Jupiter Myth (2002)
  15. The Accusers (2003)
  16. Scandal Takes a Holiday (2004)
  17. See Delphi and Die (2005)
  18. Saturnalia (2007)
  19. Alexandria (2009)

Omnibus editions:

  • Falco on His Metal (1999)
    • Venus in Copper
    • The Iron Hand of Mars
    • Poseidon's Gold
  • Falco on the Loose (2003)
    • Last Act in Palmyra
    • Time to Depart
    • A Dying Light in Corduba

[edit] Other Novels

  • The Course of Honour (1998)

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] External links

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The Falco novels by Lindsey Davis


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NAME Davis, Lindsey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH