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Marcus Didius Falco

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Marcus Didius Falco	comment	Central character and Character Narrator of the Historical Fiction novels by Lindsey Davis. Falco is an "informer" (the equivalent of a private eye) in Ancient Rome around A.D. 70. Reviewers describe Marcus Didius Falco as "Sam Spade in a Toga", but existing centuries before Film Noir was invented makes Falco amusingly Genre Blind, and allows the author to gleefully subvert most Hardboiled Detective tropes. The series follows Falco as he takes on a series of cases, often in far-off provinces, and slowly climbs his way up the social ladder- while dealing with anal-retentive bureaucrats, foreign officials, his various siblings, and other hindering bastards. These, in turn, make the books a mix of historical fiction, crime, and comedy that blend in a very satisfying way.The series runs as follows: The Silver Pigs (1989) Shadows In Bronze (1990) Venus In Copper (1991) The Iron Hand Of Mars (1992) Poseidon's Gold (1993) Last Act In Palmyra (1994) Time To Depart (1995) A Dying Light In Corduba (1996) Three Hands In The Fountain (1997) Two For The Lions (1998) One Virgin Too Many (1999) Ode To A Banker (2000) A Body In The Bath House (2001) The Jupiter Myth (2002) The Accusers (2003) Scandal Takes A Holiday (2004) See Delphi And Die (2005) Saturnalia (2007) Alexandria (2009) Nemesis (2010)The Silver Pigs was loosely adapted into a movie Age of Treason (1993), with Austalian actor Bryan Brown playing Falco.It has a pseudo-prequel, The Course Of Honour (1998), in which a young man called Vespasian climbs to the very top of the ladder and founds the Flavian dynasty of emperors. It also has what could be described as a grim footnote to the series, Master and God (2012) in which the reign of Emperor Titus ends prematurely and the second Flavian prince, Domitian, takes over as Emperor, goes insane, and the Flavian dynasty ends in his assassination. Then again, Davis wrote Domitian as the flaky, murderous one as far back in the series as The Silver Pigs (1989), so it's not too surprising...The Ides of April picks up in 89AD, with Falco's adopted daughter, Flavia Albia, now an established informer in her own right, and continues with Enemies At Home and Deadly Election. Here the investigative mantle passes to Albia, and we learn her parents are semi-retired and living as inobtrusively as they can, their patron Emperor Vespasian being dead and their friend, his son Emperor Titus, also having passed. The imperial purple is now on the toga of Emperor Domitian, the unstable Caligula-like member of the Flavian dynasty and a man with no reason to love the Falcos. Rome is now even more unstable and dangerous to live in. The main Falco family is seen in glimpses and cameos, but the focus moves to the life of Albia.The Flavia Albia novels, in order, are; The Ides of April (2013) Enemies At Home (2014) Deadly Election (2015) The Graveyard of the Hesperides (2016) The Third Nero (2017) Pandora's Boy (2018) A Capitol Death (2019) The Grove of the Caesars (2020) A Comedy of Terrors (2021) Desperate Undertakings (2022) Fatal Legacy (2023)Voices of Rome (2024) takes a new direction. Rather than focus on the cast principals, this is a collection of four novelettes each written from the point of view of supporting members of the cast from the main series, such as Falco's adopted son and Albia's brother Postumus, his nephew Larius, or Helena Justina's two brothers.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Falco had one after seeing the aftermath of the Boudiccan Revolt as a young man, as a result, he and Petro faked medical problems to get out of the army.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Marcus Didius Falco / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: Falco's relatives. See The Clan. Not nearly as screwed up as the vile family of Claudii from Nemesis, even before it turns out Anacrites is their long-lost sibling.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_16017f0	type	Broken Lever of Doom
Marcus Didius Falco / int_16017f0	comment	Broken Lever of Doom: one of these happens in Desperate Undertakings, when a serial killer with theatrical ambitions is trapped in a mechanism he devised so as to play Icarus, and fly over the stage. A member of the Vigiles misinterprets the instructions and pushes the lever the wrong way, bringing Icarus crashing down to earth.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Aelianus is shafted from a religious order he wants to join because of his uncle's involvement in treason. He had no part of it and didn't even know it happened, but that's irrelevant.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: In Shadows in Bronze, this is the role Helena Justina plays for Aemilius Rufus, a magistrate she's friends with.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Shadows In Bronze could be called Poor Communication Kills: The Book. The Silver Pigs has a bad case: Helena instantly takes against Falco, and they spend much of the book arguing. It turns out that Sosia and Helena were regularly exchanging letters before Sosia died, and Helena inferred from Sosia's letters that she'd fallen in love with Falco and had slept with him — and Sosia was only sixteen and had no previous sexual or romantic experience. As it turns out, Falco turned her down and refused to risk it, but it takes a while to get the misunderstanding sorted out. It really doesn't help that Sosia gave Falco a bracelet that Helena had given her, and Falco had brought it with him. It's not just that; Sosia told Helena she'd given Falco the names of the conspirators, so Helena assumes Falco's investigation is just a cover-up. Turns out she'd written out a denunciation and left it with the original silver pig. A good deal more of the conspiracy could have been revealed earlier if Falco had just asked what Helena's ex-husband's name was.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Falco and Petro, his best friend, who was in the army with him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: There's a few. Florius Gracilis in The Iron Hand Of Mars, who is trampled and gored to death by a wild aurochs. Aufidius Crispus in Shadows In Bronze, who dives into the water just as a trireme sails over it, and is drowned after being bashed about by the oars. Pomponius in A Body In The Bath House: Strangled, stabbed and one eye pulled out. Chrysippus in Ode To A Banker: His attacker shoves a scroll-rod up his nose before beating him to death. Rufius Constans in A Dying Light In Corduba, who tries to fit a new millstone into his grandparents' mill, but it doesn't work — and the millstone ends up caving in his chest. Famia in Two For The Lions, who is sentenced to death by being torn apart by a lion. Phrygia in Desperate Undertaking truly takes the cake in terms of horror: she's imprisoned inside a wooden bull, tied hand and foot, to be raped to death by a wild bull (in a recreation of the Greek myth of Pasiphae and the Minotaur). When Albia and the others find her, she's barely breathing, having been gored and trampled and flung about the yard in the wooden frame. Albia theorizes that the wooden bull must have collapsed from the weight of the real bull, and grimly hopes that the mating didn't succeed.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Smug Snake Anacrites, the Chief Spy and Falco's rival, along with Laeta, the Correspondence Chief who is constantly warring with Anacrites.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Marcus Didius Falco / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Early in The Silver Pigs, Sosia decides not to be a useless noblewoman who needs to be rescued and takes the initiative when she's kidnapped. As it turns out, she does need to be rescued, but that introduces her to Falco, who she decides will be her co-protagonist in bringing down a treasonous plot. Unfortunately, she takes the initiative too far and goes to investigate a possible location of stolen goods, and keep in mind, she's a teenager with absolutely no survival skills. If she'd been in a great adventure tale, Falco might have been able to find her location and get there fast enough to rescue her, but he gets held up through no fault of his own (he didn't quite receive the note in time, and his landlord sent thugs to beat him up for unpaid rent), and Sosia dies. Even if he'd been there, he probably wouldn't have been able to save her- Sosia was murdered because she stumbled into a key conspirator, Domitian, and saw his face. If Falco was there, Domitian probably would have ordered his death too.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Marcus Didius Falco / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The villain of See Delphi And Die disguises the bodies of people he kills as meat that he sells.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
Marcus Didius Falco / int_237f7eeb	comment	In Three Hands In The Fountain, it's revealed that a serial killer has been murdering women for decades and disposing of their hacked-up remains either by throwing them into one of the rivers that supplies Rome's aqueducts, or by dumping them in the sewers. People have been finding the body parts for years, but no inquiry was ever made officially because everyone viewed the victims as people to be written off (slaves or prostitutes), and the deaths as unimportant and an inconvenience, so, as is the case with many murders in real life, it was believed that there was no point to reporting them.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: After being the main character of The Course of Honour, Caenis appears in exactly one book in the main series. It's also the book she dies in. Desperate Undertakings has the return of the actors from Last Act In Palmyra. Chremes, Phrygia and Philocrates are killed by Tranio.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Petro amongst the vigiles (firemen/policemen - see Friend on the Force above).
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Marcus Didius Falco / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Vinius, one of the protagonists of Master and God, is the son of Marcus Rubella. He spends a lot of time trying not to be his father, while everyone else thinks he should be his father- i.e. pushing him into the army, promoting him, encouraging him to take new positions and so on. He ends up acting like his father to try not getting caught in a web of conspiracies.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_25dffed2	comment	Headbutting Heroes: Falco and Helena in the first book.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Two of Petro's children die from chicken pox. In One Virgin Too Many, Gaia Laelia falls down a well (and is fine... for a given value of fine), but spent about two days down there. Helena ends up having four children, but only two make it: the first miscarries after a fall down some stairs and the fourth is dead shortly after birth. The Ides Of April starts with Albia relating the death of a three year old boy whose parents left their door open and he ran into the road and got hit by a cart.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Marcus Didius Falco / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Master and God is basically the sequel to The Course Of Honour, though it's set over a decade later and uses almost none of the same characters. It follows the same themes (the rise and fall of Emperors and how Rome survives them) and the same arc plots (a man and a woman fall in love but cannot be together at first, but they are continually pulled into the Empire's struggles) and both end with the beginning of a new age for Rome: The Course of Honour ends with Vespasian as Caesar, taking Caenis as his lover, and Master and God ends with Domitian dead and Nerva the new Emperor as Vinius and Lucilla run for it.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Marcus Didius Falco / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Helena Justina, the patrician daughter of a senator, and therefore two ranks above Falco (a plebeian). The two fall in love in "The Silver Pigs", and a constant theme of later novels is Falco trying to advance his social status so he can legitimise their relationship.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Marcus Didius Falco / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Falco has a grudge against his father (and redheads) because his dad ran off with another woman when Falco was a child. He later comes back into Falco's life under the guise of shady auctioneer Geminus. Falco never forgives him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Marcus Didius Falco / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica: Most of them aren't from Spain, very few of them own olives and even fewer produce olive oil.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_2b2abf36	type	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
Marcus Didius Falco / int_2b2abf36	comment	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Falco's opinion of nouveau-riche freedmen, who are mostly ill-educated; many of them who appear in the series do not disappoint, for example the Hortensii from Venus in Copper.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
Marcus Didius Falco / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Sosia Favonia, Falco's second daughter, who is usually just referred to as Favonia to make things easier for everyone.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Marcus Didius Falco / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Themison of Miletus, a doctor, describes Domitian's paranoia as this — patients with paranoia tend to suspect everyone around them, despite their innocence, and will continue to do so even if evidence proving their innocence is shown. Many will end up turning against their paranoid loved ones because they just can't take it any more. Vinius does so, in the end.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_30ef2781	type	The City Narrows
Marcus Didius Falco / int_30ef2781	comment	The City Narrows: Falco's neighborhood in the Aventine, full of grimy characters of all types (Falco himself included). The Transtiberina district is also this way, the difference being that the Aventine is full of lower-class Romans born and raised in the city while the Transtiberina is an immigrant ghetto. Falco prefers the Aventine because he grew up there and knows the streets like the back of his hand. The Subura was worse, according to Falco's narration in Venus In Copper. It's got better since then, but it's still a very dangerous place.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Marcus Didius Falco / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Davis is very fond of this trope. Beginning with The Silver Pigs and continuing throughout the series, Falco reiterates how much he despises Britannia, the most far-flung and least hospitable of all the Empire's provinces, where there's nothing of value and the natives will never amount to much of anything. In Shadows in Bronze Falco observes while cutting through Nero's old Golden House that Vespasian is planning to return it to the people and that the amphitheater that his architects will put up will be "yet another forgettable Imperial monument." In fact, it will be the Flavian Amphitheater, better known as the Colosseum, which almost two thousand years later and in ruins is still arguably Rome's greatest landmark. In Venus in Copper Falco encounters a Gaulishnote that's French for those of you who don't know your classical history/geography cook which he finds ridiculous, as that country will never be famous for good food, although the cook in question is very good. In Last Act in Palmyra, Falco writes a play, "The Spook Who Spoke", with a plot remarkably similar to Hamlet. The actor he describes it to instantly rejects the idea, as ghosts don't speak in plays. In the same book the theatre group is waylayed by a bizarre cult, called Christians. "Only one god? How boring." In Three Hands in the Fountain, Helena suggests that Marcus start a "portfolio" of Italian landholdings by buying the farm near Tibur (modern day Tivoli) where he and Petro are staying while they investigate the surrounding countryside. Falco scoffs that "no one of any taste or sense" would want to own land in that area. Approximately 50 years later, the Emperor Hadrian will build his famous villa within a stone's throw of the same farm. In Alexandria the inventor Heron mentions his aeolipile (wind ball, a steam engine — and yes, it was a real invention) which Helena Justina suggests could be used as a form of propulsion to move vehicles. Heron laughs at this and says his invention is merely a toy — after all, who would need it? (Although he also points out the difficulty making a strong enough boiler for a larger version.)
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
Marcus Didius Falco / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: In Three Hands In The Fountain, the Serial Killer's metier is to dismember his victims and drop the pieces into various sewer outlets; Falco is sickened when his brother-in-law, a river boatman, gleefully tells him that these parts show up so regularly that he and fellow boatman have taken to calling them "festival fancies" (since they appear during public holidays; The fact that at least one victim's hand floats up in a public fountain allows Falco and his partners to trace the killer's whereabouts to one of the upriver aqueducts; In See Delphi and Die, the killer's disposes of his victims by dismembering the bodies and cooking them into the stew served to groups of tourists.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_34bd7be2	type	Super Drowning Skills
Marcus Didius Falco / int_34bd7be2	comment	Super Drowning Skills: Falco never learned to swim; he was confined to barracks the week all the other recruits learned. Helena tries to teach him a few times, but it never works.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Marcus Didius Falco / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: In Venus In Copper, Appius Priscillus brought poisoned spices (to be mixed with wine, not the kind used with food) to a dinner with the intention of killing his rivals and their wives; however, he left the wine and the spices as gifts before he left, so he could not personally serve them the wine. Falco and a witness accidentally stumble upon the wine and spices and decide to drink some; the witness asks for and gets all the spices, thus later killing him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Marcus Didius Falco / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: There's plenty of instances of 'shit' and the like in the main series, but only one instance of 'fuck' (see Precision F-Strike, below). Master and God, in contrast, uses 'fuck' liberally, mainly because one of the protagonists is a serving Praetorian Guard.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: Falco's description of an uber-badass athlete, Milo of Croton, from Shadows in Bronze:
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_38621649	comment	Prodigal Family: Marcus' entire family tree, highlighted by the annotations on the family tree. We meet several of them in Poseidon's Gold, including his disreputable auctioneer father, who left his mother years ago; in Scandal Takes a Holiday, we meet the uncle "nobody ever talks about", his mother's eldest brother.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: After twenty books, Falco knows exactly how to make Anacrites dance to his tune. And Anacrites knows how to make Falco and Petro dance tooâ€¦
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The Primus Pilus of the Legio XIV Gemina "innocently" asks Falco exactly how Poenius Postumus, The Neidermeyer who idiotically refused to march Legio II Augusta to the XIV's aid during the Boudiccan Revolt, died. Falco smiles and says Postumus fell on his sword, while reflecting that he and every other legionary of the II swore an oath to never reveal the truth to outsiders (including the reader). However, it is heavily implied that Postumus was fragged by his own men for his cowardice and stupidity.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
Marcus Didius Falco / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: While Davis's unsavory depiction of Domitian is internally consistent, its historical foundations have been superseded by more recent research. The main problem is that basically all the sources about Domitian's reign were written after the fact by people who had bones to pick with him—aristocrats of the senatorial class like Suetonius or Pliny the Elder, with whom Domitian had notoriously poor relations—while the positive contemporaneous accounts by poets like Statius and Martial were considered no more than acts of brown-nosing (which, to be fair, they were). The negative accounts were essentially believed without question for centuries. More recent archaeological and historical studies indicate that Domitian's reign marked a period of financial stability thanks to the man's tight grip on economic policy (it is noted that coinage of the era are of particularly good quality in comparison to what came before and after), which laid the groundwork for the later prosperity of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty, and that Domitian was pragmatic enough to not pursue aggressive war policies which might have unnecessarily burdened the state (though this made him rather unpopular with the traditionalists of the upper classes). The common people and the troops generally seemed to have liked him, thanks to his reintroduction/promotion of various public festivities, his visits to the front, and his gifts/donatives to the public and the military—in fact, a group of officers of the Praetorian Guard eventually forced Nerva to put his killers to death. The modern, revisionist view paints Domitian as an autocratic but benevolent despot, whose flaws included Control Freak tendencies, paranoia, an inability to appease the senatorial classes, and an unfortunate penchance to celebrate military victories too early.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Marcus Didius Falco / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: At one point in Two For the Lions, Falco is forced to give up on a case because there's just nothing to continue on with. He then goes on a chapter-long rant about how real cases aren't solved in a couple of days and clues don't materialise when it's most convenient. In The Silver Pigs, Sosia decides to go investigate a place where evidence is stored. However, she's a young teenager with no survival skills, and her note to Falco goes astray, so instead of being rescued at the last minute or managing to escape, she is unceremoniously murdered. Gaia Laelia, the six-year-old daughter of a well-known patrician family who boast several members who have held some of the most exclusive and respected religious roles in existence, tells everyone she can that she fears for her life because a member of her family threatened to kill her. Almost nobody believes her, and the few who do are stone-walled when they try to help her. In Three Hands In The Fountain, it's revealed that a serial killer has been murdering women for decades and disposing of their hacked-up remains either by throwing them into one of the rivers that supplies Rome's aqueducts, or by dumping them in the sewers. People have been finding the body parts for years, but no inquiry was ever made officially because everyone viewed the victims as people to be written off (slaves or prostitutes), and the deaths as unimportant and an inconvenience, so, as is the case with many murders in real life, it was believed that there was no point to reporting them. In Time To Depart, Nonnius Albius, a member of an infamous and dangerous gang, is convinced by Petro to turn against his boss and become a witness after being diagnosed with a fatal illness. It's later revealed that the 'fatal illness' was a story conceived by Petro, who'd sent the doctor to convince Nonnius that he was sick. However, it's revealed a bit later that Nonnius saw through the story all along- he knew perfectly well that he wasn't sick, and once he made inquiries and found that the doctor who told him he was dying had a brother working for the vigiles, the ploy was obvious. Helena spends a lot of Poseidon's Gold trying to mend the rift between Falco and Geminus. It doesn't work, as might be expected- Geminus refuses to apologise and admit he was wrong to walk out on his wife and children, and Falco refuses to forgive him, especially because he won't apologise. Some issues can be resolved, but not when neither party will budge on their stance.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Marcus Didius Falco / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Nemesis, to the whole series: Petro and Maia are finally together, Anacrites and his brothers are dead, and it looks like it's smooth sailing from then on... but Helena and Falco's son died, as did Geminus; and Vespasian's about to die, meaning that while they'll get the friendly Titus as Emperor for two years, they'll then get the very unfriendly Domitian as Emperor. The Jupiter Myth: The Jupiter Gang have been broken and Londinium is safe from them, with one of their leaders dead and the other fleeing Britain. Petro and Maia have finally become a couple, and Maia is unharmed. However, Chloris is dead, Florius is at large and even more determined to kill Petro, and Albia will always suffer from her torment at his hands. In addition, Florius is absolved of the murder of Verovolcus, which destroys Petro's case against him, and while London is safe from the Jupiter Gang, there will always be more organised crime.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Time To Depart. Petro's plan was easily seen through, but then the people who realised decided to use it for themselves, and adapted it, leading to their enemy to make his own plan, which Falco and Petro then had to figure out and counter...
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Falco rejects a social promotion at the end of The Silver Pigs, as it's an obvious bribe for keeping quiet about a political scandal. Falco then realises he's thrown away the chance to marry Helena legally and changes his mind, but by then Vespasian has withdrawn his offer. In The Jupiter Myth, Falco reflects bitterly that Rome should have abandoned Britannia as soon as it became clear that its fabled mineral wealth didn't exist, but Boudica's revolt and its aftermath made staying there a matter of national pride, which is why the Empire has continued to occupy a worthless province that holds nothing of value and only bad memories for himself and Petro.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_461defa0	comment	Two-Faced: Vinius took a spear to the face, leaving him with one horribly-scarred side and another that's almost perfectly intact. Sea captain Laesus in Shadows in Bronze has a face that looks like a theater mask, one side smiling and the other sad. This foreshadows his betrayal of Falco and where his true allegiances lie — with Pertinax.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Marcus Didius Falco / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Aemilius Rufus in Shadows in Bronze. He initially appears to be a competent, attractive, skilled, wealthy aristocrat, but he's quickly revealed to be a complete moron who has no idea what he's doing.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Marcus Didius Falco / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted; Flavia Albia first appears as a street urchin in Londinium. Falco and Helena speculate about her origins, and tentatively conclude her parents were most likely Roman settlers who were slaughtered during the Boudica uprising.note This is never established: she might have been British by parents as well as birth They decide they can't just leave her there, and she returns to Rome with them as a ward and later as an adoptive daughter.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Marcus Didius Falco / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In one instance in Shadows In Bronze, Falco states that "if this was an adventure tale by some scurrilous court poet", his current conversation partner (sea captain Laesus, who incidentally noted that Falco did not appear like a priest but more like a spy trying to look like one) would then tell him he knew exactly the person Falco was looking for, Curtius Gordianus, and that said person would be in public tonight. Laesus milks the tension for all it's worth, before stating he's never heard of the man.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: These often happen- life doesn't fix itself just because the crimes get solved.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "It's my brother-in-law." Famia was dead. "Antonia Caenis is recently passed away." 'I turned the bone and read the name: LINUS.' 'On it were the initials T FL DOM- Titus Flavius Domitian, Vespasian's younger son.' In addition: '...and stabbed her through the heart, with his pen. He was right, Sosia Camillina could not have expected that.' "So who will she name next, Timosthenes?" 'We had found Statianus.' 'There is another person we know whose eyes are of the same colours: Anacrites.' "That's not Maia!" "Then, I had no doubt, Scilla had grabbed a spear and followed the lion into the garden. She had killed Leonidas herself." "I still remember how I mixed the wine for him: I had killed Viridovix myself." "Didius Falco, I am hoping," declared the Senator with significant formality, "you can tell me who has done me the honour of making me a grandfather." Also: 'I knew this man. He was Helena's ex-husband; his name was Atius Pertinax. According to the Daily Gazette, he was dead too.'
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Marcus Didius Falco / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: In Master and God, Gracilis and Vinius consult a doctor about their friend, Domitian. At first the doctor assumes that they're asking about themselves, but when he finds out who they mean, he has a mental breakdown because of the possible implications that could ensue, since he just diagnosed the Emperor with paranoia.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_51dc66f6	comment	Hardboiled Detective: in the early novels more than in the later ones, wherein heâ€™s settled down.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Marcus Didius Falco / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Averted with Emperor Vespasian, who is very competent and completely lacking in pretension.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Marcus Didius Falco / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Master And God begins and ends with the same sentence: "It was a quiet afternoon on the Via Flaminia".
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Marcus Didius Falco / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted several times. The most significant one is at the end of Enemies At Home, when Albia contracts dysentery.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Marcus Didius Falco / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Petro. Ladykiller in Love: He really does love his wife. It doesn't end well. Vinius in Master and God, who goes through six wives. To be fair, it wouldn't have been so many if his brothers hadn't kept marrying him off every time he got divorced. By Enemies At Home, Aelianus is on his third wife. To be fair, he wasn't the one who initiated the first divorce.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_5f207a1a	type	Courtroom Episode
Marcus Didius Falco / int_5f207a1a	comment	Courtroom Episode: The Accusers.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Marcus Didius Falco / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In The Iron Hand of Mars Falco discovers that Helena is being courted by the Emperor's son Titus. Falco knows she doesn't love Titus, but out of a belated sense of patriotism — and feeling that he can't stand in the way of her getting such a tremendous social advancement — he urges Helena to marry him. Helena calmly responds that she's already turned Titus down.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: A non-villainous version in Poseidon's Gold. Falco has become a prime suspect in a grisly murder of a legionnaire. Falco and Petro are thick as thieves, but they both know Petro is too conscientious a public officer (and has a family to consider) to cover for Falco indefinitely; on top of that, the magistrate Marponius has latched onto the case personally and is breathing down Petro's neck for results. Petro also knows that, even if Falco has been banned from leaving city limits, he could easily keep himself hidden inside Rome if he wanted to, so he ends up taking Helena into custody so that Falco would present himself (and whatever he has discovered) to the magistrate. To be fair to Petro, he did warn Falco ahead of time that he only had about a day's left of slack before Petro would be forced to pick up the pace. Subverted when it turns out Helena went to the murder scene of her own accord to help the waiter clean it up after the body was removed and thus cast herself under suspicion of concealing evidence.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Marcus Didius Falco / int_643618e5	comment	The second is Negrinus in The Accusers. After it's revealed that he's a Replacement Goldfish, a substitute that was brought in after the real Negrinus died, he loses all claim to his property, his rank and even his name, as he's not the real Negrinus — but he also has no idea who he really is.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Marcus Didius Falco / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Used by Aedemon, a physician, who describes several people in Alexandria by these terms.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_693cabaf	type	Gladiator Games
Marcus Didius Falco / int_693cabaf	comment	Gladiator Games/Bread and Circuses: Two for the Lions revolves around them.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6a993504	type	Audio Adaptation
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6a993504	comment	Audio Adaptation: Several of the Falco novels have been adapted as radio serial dramas by the BBC.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: As mentioned above, Geminus was right when he said giving money to any of Falco's sisters (possibly excepting Maia) would have been a bad idea. They're all bloody scary.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In The Accusers, the secret of the Metellus family turns out to be that Calpurnia Cara bore three children, two girls and a boy, and when the boy died, rather than admit the truth, she simply asked the babysitter to substitute one of the kids she was caring for. Even when the truth gets out, Negrinus' siblings accept him, but that's not the problem: the problem is that the adoption was never actually legal. Had Negrinus simply been adopted, everything would be fine, but his true parents are unknown, so he becomes an unperson: his marriage becomes illegal; he loses his rank, as do his children; he has no right to any of his property and he can't even use his name, as he has no legal right to it. Falco never finds out what happens to him, but he probably left Rome and tried to start over.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Musca, the fly in Master and God. Musca is the Latin word for fly, and also the name of the constellation otherwise known as the Fly.note In modern French, the Latin word "musca" has become "mouche" - also a fly, but with the colloquial meaning of "spy", "squealer", "police informer". Porcius, the new recruit in Time To Depart- he's the son of a man who sells cold meats, and 'Porcius' is close to 'porcine'. In a way, it can also be seen as a clue to the fact that he's a traitor: Porcius -> porcine -> pig -> squealer.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6dbf171	type	Fake King
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6dbf171	comment	Fake King: The return of the long-dead emperor Nero is a plot-line in The Third Nero. Flavia Albia has to look behind the distraction to find out who's really behind it and what their real motives are.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_6eeba1f2	type	"Shut Up" Kiss
Marcus Didius Falco / int_6eeba1f2	comment	"Shut Up" Kiss: In The Silver Pigs; at Massilia, while escorting Helena Justina back to Rome, Falco attempts to resolve the romantic tensions that have built up between the two of them this way. His kiss is forced and feels flat, putting a damper on both their emotions. The second time he attempts to kiss her much later on is much more passionate.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_720e28a4	type	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
Marcus Didius Falco / int_720e28a4	comment	Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "You look like a spy." "I thought I looked like a priest." "Falco, you look like a spy who's disguised as a priest!" 'The night-life was plentiful: drunks, fornicators, more drunks, cats who had learned from the fornicators, even drunker drunks. Drunken cats, probably.'
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Marcus Didius Falco / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Three Hands in the Fountain involves the search for a killer of women who strikes during festivals, dumping their dismembered bodies in Rome's formidable aqueduct system.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7481a085	type	Offerings to the Gods
Marcus Didius Falco / int_7481a085	comment	Offerings to the Gods: Sacrifices to the gods are common and routine, Falco's not particularly devout but many of his acquaintances make regular sacrifices.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Marcus Didius Falco / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: In The Ides Of April, Albia stabs Tiberius in the palm with a skewer.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Marcus Didius Falco / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: In The Ides Of April, the plebeian aedile Manlius Faustus disguises himself as 'Tiberius', the aedile's runner.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7a21fc07	type	New Old Flame
Marcus Didius Falco / int_7a21fc07	comment	New Old Flame: The oft-mentioned "Tripolitanian rope-dancer", that Falco was carrying on with before the events of the first novel, finally makes an appearance in The Jupiter Myth.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: At the beginning of Shadows in Bronze, Falco and Anacrites are making a report to Vespasian. Vespasian shifts the topic to one of the conspirators from The Silver Pigs, saying that he will be "obliged to grant him a favor he won't forget", likely invoking this trope. Falco doesn't understand the statement, thinking it is some sort of code-speak (though he gets it later).
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Marcus Didius Falco / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Falco's first moments in the series has him calmly discussing why the girl running toward him is wearing too many clothes. He screws with her head a little, but when she pleads him for help he rapidly dispatches everyone chasing her, causes a distraction and has them both running for a safe place in minutes: a fast-thinker, a good fighter but one with a decent sense of humour. Helena, in contrast, is spiteful and angry, but is shown to be good with children and dearly loved her cousin. Domitian's first appearance has him walking in on his brother and Falco whistling a very disrespectful song that only another Caesar would dare to sing, whistle or hum around Titus, which is a good confirmation that he cares so little for the consequences that he'd get involved in a treasonous plot.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Marcus Didius Falco / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?; The Grove of the Caesars introduces two former palace slaves, boys who have been corrupted (and possibly sexually abused) and then given as gifts by Emperor Domitian. They end up with Albia, who decides she has a moral duty to provide a home and to try to resocialise them to some sort of normal life. One is murdered and Albia realises she has more of a duty than before to the survivor. She accepts him to her home, alongside the orphaned nephews formally adopted by her husband... then the next novel A Comedy of Terrors occurs a few months later and the surviving Palace slaveboy Galanthus is not mentioned even once. What happened to him? note The next novel Desperate Undertakingsreveals that Galanthus is still in the care of the Didius family, but has been absorbed into the group of slaves employed by Falco's auctioneering house, where he is being taught a trade and presumably straightened out. He no longer lives in Albia and Tiberius' household.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Rome's Cloaca Maxima, which is just about as Squick as it sounds.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_8aa92e8d	type	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
Marcus Didius Falco / int_8aa92e8d	comment	Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Master and God has Lucilla's husband Nemurus, who wears socks. In Rome, socks generally aren't a thing unless they're to keep one's feet warm, hide a deformity or make wearing shoes more comfortable; however, Nemurus wears socks because he's a hipster, and a particularly cruel one — his socks symbolise not only the fact that he's intentionally set out to make himself different, but also that he makes himself different because he feels that everyone else is below him. It's one of the big things that makes Lucilla realise that their marriage cannot continue.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Also averted several times, much to Falco's disgust.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Marcus Didius Falco / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Happens from time to time, but particularly obvious in Ode to a Banker with Chrysippus. Also, after his head injury makes him ever more unstable, Anacrites is this until Falco and Petro are forced to kill him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Domitian killed Sosia Camillina, a noble woman who was meant to trust him and be trusted. Falco has evidence about her death, but as he is a commoner with no status, he knows he can't fire the gun. In Master and God, Domitian is finally killed by Vinius, who started off as a commoner with no status before being bumped up to the Praetorian Guard, an elite body meant to trust Domitian and be trusted. After creating a major clusterfuck in the gladiator world, the final fight in Two For The Lions ends with Fidelis, Saturnius, Myrrha, Calliopus and Scilla all dead, and Anacrites nearly dead, thus neatly killing off nearly everyone responsible. In A Comedy of Terrors, Greius, a thug whose method of dealing with a troublesome person was to set a fire that burnt his whole family to death, runs from arrest into the path of an experimental machine being used to thrill crowds in the Arena. It is a flamethrower. It is possible the vigiles testing the machine know exactly what crime he committed. They test it to their satisfaction. Saffia Donata in The Accusers spent a long time blackmailing a family she married into, and got pregnant twice by her husband to ensure that she was permanently tied to them. She winds up dying in childbirth, while the child lives. Tranio/Gnaeus in Desperate Undertakings murdered his ex-wife and children and set it up to look like his ex-wife had murdered the children and killed herself in the manner of Medea. He later dies in the same way as Jason, who betrayed Medea: crushed by a collapsing replica of the ship Argo.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Marcus Didius Falco / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Caprenius Marcellus, Helena's former father-in-law, is extremely fond of her and Atius Pertinax and wants them to get remarried. Later, he comes up with an idea: Pertinax has assumed a new identity, since he's officially dead, so Marcellus wants to write Helena into his will and make her his main beneficiary, with the intention that she'll remarry Pertinax. Falco, who knows damn well that Helena divorced Pertinax for being a neglectful husband, is furious at anybody trying to use her for something like that. Later, Marcellus has a stroke, and is rendered almost totally incapable of speech. Falco takes the opportunity to marry him to Aemilia Fausta, ignoring the fact that Marcellus probably had no idea of who she was, and Aemilia gets his lands, which later go to her son- who is most likely Petro's. Crosses over into Disproportionate Retribution.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Marcus Didius Falco / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: At the end of Nemesis, Falco's adopted daughter Albia sets up as an informer in his old office. The Ides of April picks up her story 11 years later.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Marcus Didius Falco / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Venus In Copper looks like it's setting one up between Helena Justina (Betty) and Severina Zotica (Veronica), but it's essentially a bluff: Falco and Helena are made for each other, Severina's a murderess, and when she tries to kill Helena, the triangle quietly vanishes.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: Albia's narration reveals that Marcus's two favorite nephews, Larius and Gaius, were both killed off during the interim between the two series: Larius during the eruption of Vesuvius (where he was employed as a mural painter), Gaius during the fire in AD 80 (that affected the Saepta Julia where the family's auction house was located). The fact that both died Semi-Heroic Deaths does not lessen Falco's grief.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Marcus Didius Falco / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Florius. Also (probably) Anacrites.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Marcus Didius Falco / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Everyone fears this of Aelianus- he admits to admiring and liking his uncle, who disappeared. In addition, Aelianus is bored, constantly shafted by everyone else, and in a very volatile position. His uncle, a hedonistic layabout, committed treason and was killed for it. More than a few people fear that if given the opportunity, Aelianus might do the same. Fortunately he doesn't, or at least hasn't yet as of the most recent installment.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_97c57f9f	type	Mosquito Miscreants
Marcus Didius Falco / int_97c57f9f	comment	Mosquito Miscreants: In Ode to a Banker, Marcus and Helena are awakened in the middle of a summer night by the buzzing of a single mosquito. Since their infant daughter is sleeping in the next room, this is their worst nightmare, and they spend an hour flailing around in the dark, until they are absolutely sure they have killed it.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Marcus Didius Falco / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Falco's brother Festus had a girlfriend called Marina, who gave birth to a daughter, Marcia, after Festus went back on duty. Having slept with both Falco and Festus, Marcia could be either man's child, but everyone prefers to think that she's Festus' daughter, and there's no way of telling.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
Marcus Didius Falco / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: He really does love his wife. It doesn't end well.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Anacrites to Falco.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Marcus Didius Falco / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The Course Of Honour stars Vespasian and his mistress, Antonia's freedwoman Caenis, who later turns up in Two For The Lions.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In Master and God: "Those who love [Domitian] will feel rejected..." "Those who love him may be rejected." "Exactly." Later in the book, Domitian's obsessive paranoia becomes so extreme that Vinius, a previously loyal Praetorian, ends up joining the rebellion, and is later forced to finally kill Domitian himself, since their appointed assassin screwed it up. There's quite a few hints in The Accusers to the nature of the Metellus family's big secret: Falco notes that Metellus Negrinus doesn't resemble any of his family members; the family seems oddly paranoid about babies and the possibility of a substituted child; Negrinus is disinherited despite having been close to his father and nobody gives a reason; and midway through the book a will expert infers from the will that his mother, Calpurnia Cara, had drastically upset her husband somehow.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d49c512	type	Please Shoot the Messenger
Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d49c512	comment	Please Shoot the Messenger: Falco suspects his mission to Germania in The Iron Hand of Mars is a Uriah Gambit by Titus (who is courting Helena Justina); Falco is not carrying any specific message for the Legio XIV Gemina stationed at Moguntiacumnote Mainz, but his mere status as a former legionary of the Legio II Augusta (who left the XIV twisting in the wind during Boudica's revolt) is as good as a massive target painted on his back.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d698274	type	Loose Floorboard Hiding Spot
Marcus Didius Falco / int_9d698274	comment	Loose Floorboardhiding Spot: Falco is tasked with investigating the death of another informer who probed a case too deeply and too unwisely. Falco knows all the tricks for concealment and keeping things safe - he uses them himself. He soon deduces that a knothole in a floorboard that looks like any other floorboard in the room is just big enough to insert a finger into. This allows him to lift the board up and discover this is the safe hold for the dead man's note tablets and other evidence relating to cases he has been working on.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Falco gets hit hard with this trope in The Accusers, after discovering that it was Saffia Donata, not Calpurnia Cara, who murdered Rubirius Metellus. Not only has he put an innocent party through a gruelling murder trial and blackened her name, he now has to admit he was wrong, and will get hit with a massive compensation claim that he knows he won't be able to pay, thus ruining him, his entire family and everyone who worked with him. Since Saffia died in childbirth, she can't be prosecuted, and to make matters worse, Calpurnia Cara killed herself after the trial looked likely to succeed, before Falco discovered that she was innocent.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The death of Pomponius. Not content with strangling him, his killers took his eye out too.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: When Falco disposes of Helena's uncle's corpse, he has enough courtesy to toss a fistful of dirt and a coin down the sewer hatch after the body, and say the customary prayer for the dead. In The Iron Hand of Mars, Falco, Justinus, and a detachment of recruits (led by their centurion) visit a fort whose garrison was starved into submission, then massacred after they had surrendered. The group erect a small altar and offer prayers for the dead— and pray for their own safety in their subsequent journey into non-Roman territory. Later, when the group encounters the ruined remains of the field camp of the legions who were massacred at Teutoburg Forest, they are so stunned that they cannot offer anything but a heavy moment of silence.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a6cda066	comment	'The night-life was plentiful: drunks, fornicators, more drunks, cats who had learned from the fornicators, even drunker drunks. Drunken cats, probably.'
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Anacrites got out of how many situations in the end? Ultimately, not enough.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Professional widow Severina Zotica in Venus in Copper.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a77635b6	type	Derivative Works
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a77635b6	comment	Derivative Works: "Age of Treason", a loose film adaptation of The Silver Pigs starring Bryan Brown as Falco. Lindsey Davis disowned the film for deviating too much from the source material.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_a8369e22	type	The Un-Twist
Marcus Didius Falco / int_a8369e22	comment	The Un-Twist: In-universe example. In Alexandria, Falco, Helena and co go to Alexandria for two reasons: they want to see the Seven Wonders of the World, and since Falco's uncle lives there, it actually seemed like going to Egypt was a plausible idea. Everyone in the Museion, however, has heard of Didius Falco, the Emperor's man, and thinks he's there to do something involving bureaucracy, possibly involving replacing some of the high-ranking people there. He really hasn't, but after the Librarian dies, nobody is convinced.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Marcus Didius Falco / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Two thousand years separate us from the people in the book, and to modern eyes some of their behaviour can seem inhumane and just plain strange. To her credit, the author doesn't play it for shock value, but rather as a natural part of life in Rome. One example: In Venus In Copper, Viridovix, a slave of the Hortensius family, is accidentally murdered after he drinks some poisoned wine (the poison in question was intended for someone else). Falco wants to avenge his death, but once he discovers who had actually brought the poison, he notes that yes, he has enough evidence and witnesses for a solid case in court... but the victim was a slave and his owners barely cared about him, so there likely wouldn't be a murder trial, just a civil suit over the loss of the slave, which would result in a low payout.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Marcus Didius Falco / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: A very literal version for Aufidius Crispus in Shadows in Bronze: he makes decisions on a whim, and often refuses to take advice concerning said decisions into account, even if the advice-giver really knows what they're talking about. Even when his decisions end badly, he refuses to learn from his mistakes. This flaw actually gets him killed, because he decides to dive into the sea to escape the imminent ship crash he's about to be in the middle of- and ends up going under a trireme.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Linus, one of Petronius' crew we're introduced to in Time to Depart. He exists to get killed by Balbinus.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The Silver Pigs being followed by Shadows in Bronze, Venus in Copper, The Iron Hand of Mars and Poseidon's Gold, at which point Lindsey Davis ran out of metals that were known to the Romans and sounded promising in a title. Titles after that follow no particular pattern, though several riff on a well-known phrase (e.g Three Hands in the Fountain). Three Hands is also the first in a trio of books with numerically-themed titles: Three Hands in the Fountain, Two for the Lions and One Virgin Too Many.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: Vinius in Master and God took a spear to the face, leaving him with a ruined right eye and a lot of facial scars. He does see a doctor about them and gets an ointment to soften the skin, but essentially there's nothing more that can be done.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: By the end of Venus In Copper, Severina has amassed a huge dowry and got revenge on the man who inadvertently murdered her loverâ€¦ but he's still dead, and she ends up in a probably unhappy marriage to a man who knows the details of her crimes and has evidence hidden away, so she can't kill him too.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Falco, Petro, and quite often Helena.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Falco spends a lot of time rotting in wineshops and giving lengthy, unflattering descriptions of everyone he meets. However never having read Raymond Chandler, he doesn't know that private eyes are supposed to be loners. "Honest, legate!"
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Marcus Didius Falco / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Veleda stirred up rebellions against Rome and conducted numerous human sacrifices, and yet Falco still helps her escape her fate (paraded as a prisoner in Rutilius Gallicus' Ovation before being raped and executed as the highlight), mainly because he thinks it's a horrible death that nobody deserves. He'd prefer her to be killed quickly and cleanly.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Marcus Didius Falco / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: An in-universe one, when Quinctius Quadratus dies (having previously accidentally got a friend killed and running out on said dying friend):
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
Marcus Didius Falco / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: In Venus In Copper, Falco manages to bluff Priscillus beautifully by claiming that he saw the poisoned spices that Priscillus had brought mixed into wine and drunk, and then that he saw Novus lying dead from poison. He's not lying, as such: he did see the spices mixed into wine and drunk, and he did see Novus' body, but the wine was drunk by Novus' cook, who died, and Novus was murdered by Severina. He also bluffs Sabina Pollia and Hortensia Attila by telling them that the poisoned cake they'd prepared for Novus had been removed by Severina Zotica as a treat for Novus to eat alone. In reality, Severina had removed it, but she knew it was poisoned and had thrown it into the trash so nobody else would be responsible for Novus' death.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_b8f0415	type	Dramatis Personae
Marcus Didius Falco / int_b8f0415	comment	Dramatis Personae: The author says she does it because Roman names follow such similar patterns that she gets confused herself. Done tongue-in-cheek in Last Act in Palmyra, in which Falco and Helena join a travelling theatre troupe.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Marcus Didius Falco / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Andronicus in The Ides Of April is a classic example. He believes he is inherently better than everyone else, and crucially, he believes that nothing he does can ever be considered wrong because he is the one who did it. Whatever he did, it's always someone else's fault, or it was necessary. He kills five people for wronging him, and several of them didn't do more than insult him or yell at him. When Albia confronts him and tells him that their burgeoning friendship/relationship was over long before that talk, he immediately concludes that she must be seeing someone else, not that she doesn't want anything more to do with a serial killer. Tranio/Gnaeus in Desperate Undertakings is another example- he feels that he is perfectly justified in having killed nearly ten people because they all wronged him in some minor way, and even tells Albia to her face that he hasn't done anything wrong by doing so.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Marcus Didius Falco / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: About the only one in the main series: Claudius Pius calling Falco and Petro 'donkey-fuckers' in Nemesis.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Marcus Didius Falco / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Falco becomes the prime suspect in a murder in Poseidon's Gold and has to solve the case to clear himself. And the good name of the family as well, since Festus seems to have become involved in a scheme (before he died) where his financiers, fellow soldiers in the Legio XV Apollinaris, stole from the legion coffers to finance his venture.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Marcus Didius Falco / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Justinus and Veleda. They had several hours together in her tower, but on the other hand, for all we know Veleda just wanted some intelligent conversation from a sophisticated man. Justinus never confirms that he slept with her; Falco and the soldiers all instantly decide that he did. Either way, it's not like it worked out. Aemilius Rufus and Helena Justina in Shadows in Bronze. Rufus's sister Aemilia Fausta hints that Helena is Rufus' mistress, and that they engaged in intimate activities at Aufidius Crispus' party (which Aemilia Fausta gatecrashed with Falco). Falco is not inclined to believe it given the somewhat distant interactions between Rufus and Helena, though he's still torn up about it. After a spat with Helena, he trusts her when she says she never slept with Rufus. Lingering doubts in the readers' minds may be dispelled when Aemilius Rufus makes a pass at Falco in private, which combined with his continued bachelor status indicates that he is strictly homosexual.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c15195f0	comment	Character Death: Anacrites and Geminus in Nemesis, and Famia in Two For The Lions. In the Albia series, it's revealed that Lentullus, Larius and Gaius died during the Time Skip.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: When Falco and Flavius Hilaris interrogate Claudius Triferus, the contracted manager of the Vebiodunum silver mines in The Silver Pigs, Falco takes the role of the bad cop while Hilaris becomes the good cop. Later, in The Iron Hand of Mars, Falco is attempting to extract information from a barmaid. He manages to upset her through mentioning her apparent lover. Justinus, accompanying Falco, goes into the tavern to comfort her and manages to get the needed information. Afterwards, Falco explicitly mentions this trope to Justinus.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c3286b8e	type	Uptown Girl
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c3286b8e	comment	Uptown Girl: Falco muses over the possibility of becoming Sosia Camillina's lover and instantly discounts it because only a fool tries to advance his position that way. Then he falls in love with Helena Justina instead.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Rubella wanted to get into the Praetorian Guard more than anything. Master and God tells us that he did indeed get into the Guard — and died six weeks later, because he celebrated so much that the wine basically killed his brain. As pointed out in the same book, Domitian claimed to stand for morality and punished criminals severely... but because he was so emotionally volatile and hard to predict, everyone ended up behaving like a pack of douchebags just to survive, whether it was spying, bribing people, or just making things up. In other words, his laws didn't make Rome a more moral place, they pretty much destroyed what morality was left.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Domitian's biggest fault. He wants to be loved like his father and brother, but he never gets the love he wants because unlike them, he's a cold, calculating bastard. He does his best to make himself loved, and tries to pump up his self-esteem through more and more accolades to himself (such as renaming two months of the year, giving himself Triumphs when the wars fought weren't that substantial, and openly allowing people to call him 'Master and God', which is abominable to most Romans (calling someone a god while still alive was considered terrible, and the worst kind of hubris)). It doesn't work. Master and God notes that the public find him cold and distant, regularly buying them off; the Senate have been made obsolete, and just about anyone of note is terrified at how capricious he is.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c3fbac64	type	Bestiality Is Depraved
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c3fbac64	comment	Phrygia in Desperate Undertaking truly takes the cake in terms of horror: she's imprisoned inside a wooden bull, tied hand and foot, to be raped to death by a wild bull (in a recreation of the Greek myth of Pasiphae and the Minotaur). When Albia and the others find her, she's barely breathing, having been gored and trampled and flung about the yard in the wooden frame. Albia theorizes that the wooden bull must have collapsed from the weight of the real bull, and grimly hopes that the mating didn't succeed.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: How mine slaves picking refined silver from the cooled furnace steal from the till in The Silver Pigs, in order to avoid discovery during daily body searches (which obviously aren't thorough enough). Falco manages to amass and sneak off a nugget this way while undercover as a slave, which eventually becomes a ring he gifts to Helena.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In one novel, Falco strikes up a conversation with a group of Judean refugees who offer him a commission to retrieve one of their holy relics. At first, Falco is afraid that they want him to "raid" the treasures brought back after the Roman conquest. However, they then tell Falco that they want him to look for a "Lost Ark." Falco demurs, and tells that someone more of a daredevil then he would have to perform that particular quest... Davis has admitted to quite a lot of what she calls "tribute plagiarism" of authors she respects, most notably Sir Terry Pratchett. Examples of Discworld homage in the books are too numerous to inventory, the character of Zoilus, who flaps around the cemetery in a sheet pretending to be dead (Felmet in Wyrd Sisters), the policeman who turns up at the Saturnalia party dressed as a six-foot carrot; the three witches, one of whom is indisposed because of having to babysit the grandchildren; Alexandria University, where academics try to gain promotion by killing off the men senior to them, sometimes with the assistance of sacred crocodiles (Pyramids); a troupe of strolling players in a backwater kingdom who put on a suspiciously Shakespeare-like play (Wyrd Sisters) and do feel free to add more examples. There are [1]. A blatant one to Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War in Shadows In Bronze; Falco is closely scrutinizing a scroll of it, both to brush up on it again, and to avoid the attention of two local roughs (given Falco's luck, this obviously fails). Falco opines that Julius Caesar is a good writer, but too self-absorbed and therefore not trustworthy. Then thereâ€™s the successful British playwright whose description sounds uncannily familiar...
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Marcus Didius Falco / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Anacrites was forcibly removed from his family as a young boy and made to grow up among slaves. He eventually comes to really envy Falco for his tight-knit family, as screwed up as they are.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Justinus as an officer of the Legio I Adiutrix, as seen in The Iron Hand of Mars. He keeps himself connected to the troops as well as he can from his detached station, even picking up how to bugle the reveille. He's even picked up the local Germanic dialect, which allows him to communicate with Veleda in her native tongue and shatters her image of the "arrogant Roman" who sees everyone not part of the Empire as worthless barbarians who must learn and assimilate themselves into Roman culture, without learning anything about the native culture. Finally, when Falco and most of their guard detachment (Helvetius, a centurion, and his recruits) get captured by the locals, Justinus is the one who arrives to their rescue with a clever ploy (instead of running back to friendly lines, which Falco says would have been the sensible, expected thing to do), entering A Father to His Men territory in the meantime.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_cbe3d017	type	Damned by Faint Praise
Marcus Didius Falco / int_cbe3d017	comment	Damned by Faint Praise: Saturnalia begins with Falco telling us that one good thing he can say about his father is that he never hit his wife.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Averted with Theon in Alexandria- Falco finally concludes that the most likely explanation is that he killed himself and the locked doors were an accident.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d143edf2	type	Everybody Did It
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: A variant in Venus in Copper, when the landlord Hortensius Novus is murdered with poison. It turns out that all the suspects independently tried to murder him — his own family with a poisoned cake, his business rival with poisoned spices to be added to the wine — but the actual murderer was his fiance, who poisoned the plate the cakes were served on, knowing that gluttonous Novus would lick the plate clean once the meal was done. As a bonus, she sabotaged the efforts of the other would-be assassins by removing the poisoned cake from the platter beforehand, because she hated Novus so much she couldn't stand to have anyone other than her kill him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Falco's relationship with Helena Justina starts off rather antagonistically, but it gets better.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d4508136	type	There Should Be a Law
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d4508136	comment	There Should Be a Law: In See Delphi and Die, Falco and Co. travel to Greece, in part to track down a young woman who disappeared and whose father believes was kidnapped and murdered. When they find out that she was struck dead by lightning, and her aunt, a fanatic believer in the Greek gods, decided she had been "blessed by Zeus" and therefore concealed her body where she had been struck, they are profoundly depressed: no murder was committed, and there is no law that will call what her aunt did a crime, even if it subjected the girl's father to years of anguished uncertainty from which he will never fully recover.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Falco ends up with two living children: Julia Junilla Laeitana and Sosia Favonia. 'Laeitana' is the name of the province where Julia was born, but it's also the name of a wine, a fact which Falco was very aware of when he named her. Sosia is the name of Helena's dead cousin, who was murdered by Domitian. Even though she's normally just called Favonia, naming her Sosia was basically Falco's way of flipping off Vespasian and his entire family- especially since Falco always kept the evidence that Domitian killed Sosia, and could have used it at any time.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Inter-legion rivalry: Falco states that the members of Legio XIV Gemina, who gained fame fighting in the Boudiccan Revolt, are not fond of Legio II Augusta — which Falco served in â€” due to the latter's refusal to fight during a battle in the revolt. It is Falco's own bad luck that he has to deliver the titular iron hand to them in The Iron Hand of Mars at the behest of the Emperor. The Fourteenth Gemina is also not fond of the legion they share a fort with, the Legio I Adiutrix; Justinus, at the moment serving as an officer in the First, helpfully explains that the First Adiutrix was raised from marines in the Misenum fleet during Nero's time, making this a more traditional form of interservice rivalry.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: Two examples: The first is in Two For The Lions: After Anacrites fights as a gladiator in an arena under a false name, Falco uses it against him constantly as if the truth got out, Anacrites would have effectively forfeited all right to his rank. The second is Negrinus in The Accusers. After it's revealed that he's a Replacement Goldfish, a substitute that was brought in after the real Negrinus died, he loses all claim to his property, his rank and even his name, as he's not the real Negrinus — but he also has no idea who he really is.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d62184c3	type	Theme Serial Killer
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d62184c3	comment	Theme Serial Killer: The killers in Desperate Undertakings theme their murders after plays and myths. The book is divided into parts, with each part being named after the work that the next death is inspired by.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Marcus Didius Falco / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: 'Hunting leave' and 'being sent up-country' are codes for when someone is unofficially relieved from office or duty, and can amuse themselves however they want as long as they stay out of the way. Both terms carry a very negative connotation, because to be sent on hunting leave implies that somebody did something very wrong. It actually has even worse connotations for Quinctius Quadratus, because he got given some hunting leave before he'd even started his job, which is a giant red flag to everyone.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_dacdf37f	type	Shady Real Estate Agent
Marcus Didius Falco / int_dacdf37f	comment	Shady Real Estate Agent: Marcus Didius is looking to move out of the shabby apartment in downmarket Fountain Court to try and raise his social status now that he's dating Helena, ideally in a slightly better area of Rome. A plausible and helpful apartment broker called Cossus gets him the seemingly ideal place in a spanking new build among other aspiring young professionals. The only problem is, all the little creaks and shifts which the helpful estate agent assures them are down to a new build settling. The building eventually settles so far it collapses. After fearing Helena is dead, Falco looks the other way while enraged survivors lynch the estate agent.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Marcus Didius Falco / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In One Virgin Too Many, a young girl tells everyone she can that a member of her family has threatened to kill her. Later in the book, she completely vanishes without a trace, and it is revealed that the dead man Aelianus found earlier in the book was actually her great-uncle, which makes Falco suspect that his wife, who had been named as the killer, also murdered Gaia. However, while it is revealed that the true murderer was also the person who had threatened Gaia, she had not actually harmed Gaia- Gaia had simply accidentally fallen down a well, and nobody else was involved.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_dbf877ac	type	Sympathetic Slave Owner
Marcus Didius Falco / int_dbf877ac	comment	Sympathetic Slave Owner: Falco himself and most of the sympathetic characters in the books fit this pattern sooner or later. Theyâ€™re living in Ancient Rome and not dead broke; it would be very weird if they didnâ€™t own slaves. But theyâ€™re drawn as likeable for modern readers, so they treat their slaves quite decently on general principles.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Marcus Didius Falco / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The beginning of The Silver Pigs makes it look like Sosia will be another protagonist with Falco. She gets killed off rather quickly. The other protagonist is her cousin, Helena Justina.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Florius starts off as a harmless equestrian, the son of a ruthless gangster- and once the gangster is dead, he takes his place and rises in the Underworld, becoming a feared figure in no time who nearly kills Petro.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e268e2	comment	The Clan: Falco's family. They may all be crazy, but you do not mess with them. Set up as a deliberate counterpoint to Anacrites' family in Nemesis.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Master and God has flies. They turn up occasionally to represent certain things: for example, when Rutilius Gallicus is found to be so depressed that he cannot function, the narrator calls attention to a fly that keeps trying to headbutt its way through a shutter to freedom, even though all it would need to do is walk three steps. In The Ides Of April, foxes are a big part of the narrative, and Albia compares herself to the foxes often.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e32c80d9	type	Going Commando
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e32c80d9	comment	Going Commando: Falco doesn't wear anything under his tunic. Played for laughs in One Virgin Too Many when he has to be lowered head-first down a well.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Quinctius Quadratus in A Dying Light In Corduba. He's popular, good-looking, and very charming â€” basically, as Falco notes, everything that should make him successful, but he is actually incapable of knowing when he has done something wrong, so he never quite figures out why so many people who should like him think he's a bastard. (To be fair to them, he is.)
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": The funeral of the pirate Theopompus in Scandal Takes a Holiday is an undignified affair from the beginning, but after his murderers are identified at the funeral it lapses into farce when two entire gangs of pirates begin to beat seven kinds of shit out of each other, while the vigiles lounge around eating the finger food, waiting for them to finish so the survivors can be arrested.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Christians, who seduce young middle-class idiots into worshipping only one God (how boring) and solicit donations from travellers who have to beat them up to convince them to mind their own business. Plus they don't respect the Emperor (neither does Falco of course, but he doesn't piss him off by saying so in public).
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Justinus and Veleda. They meet in the middle of a clusterfuck and get about five hours together; he then must go back to Rome, and has to leave her behind. By the time they meet again, he's married with a child and she's lost most if not all of her power and is a fugitive on the run — and at the end of it, she rejects him.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e6c88e42	type	Old Shame
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e6c88e42	comment	Old Shame: In-Universe: Falco and Petro were both in the army at the same time, and they served in Legio II Augusta, the infamous legion whose leader refused to fight against Boudica. As a result, Falco has to be very careful about saying what legion he was in to certain people who he knows will take it the wrong way (usually soldiers, ex-soldiers and ex-army officers). Also, early on in the series Falco disposes of the corpse of Justinus, Aelianus and Helena's uncle at the behest of the Emperor. True, their father actually dealt the death-blow, but the manner in which he had to dispose of the rotting body is something he has never discussed openly, and he was worried that he would find the body itself in the sewer in Three Hands.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_e7b93a46	type	Interrupted Declaration of Love
Marcus Didius Falco / int_e7b93a46	comment	Interrupted Declaration of Love: Falco quickly realises Sosia is about to make one, and cuts her off.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_edf078c4	comment	Trenchcoat Brigade: Falco lived seventeen centuries before the invention of the trenchcoat. However, some tropes are too powerful: Falco is often seen on investigations lurking in a dark out-of-the-way corner whilst wearing a big dark hooded cloak, often loosely fastened in front with a belt.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
Marcus Didius Falco / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: A given in Rome's polytheist society (though they usually just say "Gods"). Variations include using specific gods, usually relevant to the situation (i.e. "Juno Moneta!" if you were financially screwed). More earthy characters use "Balls" or (Marcus' favourite) "Cobnuts".
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Exceeded by a long way in Deadly Election. Private investigator Flavia Albia is hampered in her murder inquiry by a family all of whose female members are named Julia. In the Roman style they are distinguished from each other by second names - Julia Optata, Julia Versecunda, et c. But this still slows up the investigation. Davis even includes a family tree on page 345 headed "A Family With Too Many Julias". But she still has to investigate eight related women. All called Julia something.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
Marcus Didius Falco / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Falco's best friend, Petronius, is a member of the Vigiles (primarily these were firemen; policing was a secondary role, and yes the Author knows this).
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: In Enemies At Home, Albia's narration tells us that this was the case with Gaius and Larius, Falco's nephews. Having completed his work on the Great King's House in Britain, Larius went back to his home... which was in Pompeii. Albia especially notes that Larius was such a good painter that he was the type to stay and focus on his work rather than run from a volcanic eruption. As for Gaius, he pulled a Heroic Sacrifice during the second Great Fire of Rome, refusing to leave his house so he could help others get out.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
Marcus Didius Falco / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": A powerful example from Master and God: the narrator follows a fly as it attempts to annoy the new Emperor, swings past him and —
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
Marcus Didius Falco / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: In Venus in Copper, when Falco's new apartment building collapses and kills the residents inside it (thankfully, Helena was away to buy bread), his flaky leasing agent Cossus was there at the absolute worst time. The crowd working to rescue residents and salvage the collapse beat him to death and crucify his body, mostly because the victims included a family with several young children. The men of the Fourth Cohort of Vigiles note The nearest thing to a police force in Rome - the Vigiles. think of where the word "vigilante" comes from. also mete out rough justice to one of their own who was in the pay of a criminal overlord; Porcius, the corrupt vigilus, was indirectly responsible for the death of a comrade who was on an undercover investigation. Knowing this, the Fourth show him no mercy whatsoever.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_f92c808	type	Sauna of Death
Marcus Didius Falco / int_f92c808	comment	Sauna of Death: The plot point of A Body In The Bath House.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_fa524332	type	Intrafamilial Class Conflict
Marcus Didius Falco / int_fa524332	comment	Intrafamilial Class Conflict: Fatal Legacy (2023) has the Roman public informer Flavia Albia taking on what she thinks is a straightforward case where she has to locate the documented proof a former slave was granted his freedom. As the slave went on to inherit property and found a lucrative business, with his grand-daughter about to enter a good marriage, a lot depends on this. Albia discovers exactly how much money and property is in doubt and who would stand to benefit if its current owner never stopped being a slave and has no title to any of it. And the case, suddenly, becomes a lot less straightforward.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_fde807fe	type	Torn Apart by the Mob
Marcus Didius Falco / int_fde807fe	comment	Torn Apart by the Mob: In Venus In Copper, a shoddily built Roman tenement building collapses killing all the people inside it. The estate agent who has been selling or renting apartments in the building, and assuring tenants the creaking noises are due to a new building "settling" in its foundations, is grabbed and lynched by survivors and distraught relatives of the dead. Cossus does not have an easy death.
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Marcus Didius Falco / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In Venus In Copper, Falco ends up acquiring a talking parrot who belonged to a suspect. He asks Helena to write down anything the parrot (called Chloe) says, in case she says something relevant to his case. Helena annotates the list of things Chloe said and asks if 'manicure set' is a euphemism, since Chloe also said another euphemism and several obscenities. Falco tells her that if 'manicure set' is a euphemism, he doesn't know it. Late in the novel, he ends up talking to Thalia the animal handler, who before talking to him is telling a bawdy story in which she describes one man's privates as resembling a 'three-piece manicure set'...
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Marcus Didius Falco / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Marcus Didius Falco / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Davis explores Roman life in detail, including some areas that are little known, such as the olive oil industry (A Dying Light in Corduba), art dealing (Poseidon's Gold), real estate and the nouveau-riche (Venus in Copper), finance and vanity publishing (Ode to a Banker), Vestal Virgins and other cults (One Virgin Too Many), the legal profession (The Accusers), and the building industry (A Body In The Bath House).
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