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The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs
Lindsey Davis

The Silver Pigs is a 1989 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Rome and Britannia during AD 70, just after the year of the four emperors, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. The book's title refers to 200-pound lead ingots "pigs" filled with silver ore and stolen from Roman Britain, which feature prominently in the plot.

“How old now?'
'Thirty. Downhill to the dark boat across the Styx. Probably be sick over the side in Charon's ferry too…”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“b>Emperors must make their own rules.

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

“Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.”

Lindsey Davis book The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

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