The Silver Pigs is a 1989 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Rome and Britannia during AD 70, just after the year of the four emperors, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. The book's title refers to 200-pound lead ingots "pigs" filled with silver ore and stolen from Roman Britain,[1] which feature prominently in the plot.[2]
^"Review: Silver Pigs". Kirkus Reviews.
^Davis, Lindsey. The Silver Pigs. p. 1, Chapter XII.
Winner of the Author's Club Prize for "Best First Novel" in 1989 for TheSilverPigs. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association (CWA): Dagger in the Library...
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is the setting for two previous Falco novels, TheSilverPigs and A Body in the Bath House. The novel is notable for the introduction of Albia, the young...
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fictionalised character in the Marcus Didius Falco novels TheSilverPigs, Shadows in Bronze, Three Hands in the Fountain, and The Jupiter Myth. He also appears...
North-eastern Brazil", 2007-4-30. Nelson, Sarah M. (1998). Ancestors for thePigs: Pigs in prehistory. UPenn Museum of Archaeology. ISBN 9781931707091. Rosenberg...
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