Three Hands in the Fountain
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| Author | Lindsey Davis |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Marcus Didius Falco |
| Genre(s) | Crime |
| Publisher | Century |
| Released | UK 1997 US 1999 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-89296-691-2 (US) |
Three Hands in the Fountain is a crime novel by Lindsey Davis, first published in 1997, in the United Kingdom by Century, London and in the United States by Mysterious Press, New York. It is the ninth in the Falco series of murder mysteries, set in the Roman Empire primarily during the reign of the emperor Vespasian. The title is an allusion to the song Three Coins in the Fountain.
[edit] Plot summary
Marcus Didius Falco arrives home with Helena, and their new baby, Julia Junilla Laetitnia. Escaping the welcome home party, he and Petronius Longus discover a hand in the local fountain. Soon, they discover that dismembered bodies found in the aqueducts supplying Rome, and in the Tiber are not as uncommon as one would hope, but the water commission is remarkably unconcerned. Falco has friends in the highest high places, and he at least wants to THINK the water he drinks is safe. Soon, Emperor Vespasian orders Falco and Petro to investigate, under the watchful eye of former consul Sextus Julius Frontinus. Falco leads a chase though the water system, while trying to keep the killer from striking again, a panic about the water supply and his best friend from destroying his life.
| Lindsey Davis |
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| The Falco Novels |
| The Silver Pigs | Shadows in Bronze | Venus in Copper | The Iron Hand of Mars | Poseidon's Gold | Last Act in Palmyra | Time to Depart | A Dying Light in Corduba | Three Hands in the Fountain | Two for the Lions | One Virgin Too Many | Ode to a Banker | A Body in the Bath House | The Jupiter Myth | The Accusers | Scandal Takes a Holiday | See Delphi and Die|Saturnalia |
