The Spook Who Spoke Again, Lindsey Davis
The Spook Who Spoke Again, Lindsey Davis
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The Spook Who Spoke Again
A Short Story by Lindsey Davis (Falco: The New Generation)

Author: Lindsey Davis

Narrator: Thomas Judd

Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2015

Synopsis

A short comic masterpiece from Lindsey Davis set in Ancient Rome and featuring Marcus Didius Falco, his children Flavia Albia and Postumus - and one rascally ferret. Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or perhaps eleven. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he worries who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligent yet sinister. He knows not many people like him.

When his birth mother, Thalia the snake-dancer, takes him to live with her troupe of exotic performers, Postumus sees it as useful experience even though it involves him mucking out menagerie cages. No one anticipates how much havoc he will wreak.

On his first day a tragedy occurs. No one else cares, so Postumus decides he alone must solve this crime and impose retribution on the guilty. As son and brother to the famous investigators Falco and Albia, he knows murder is punished by execution. Postumus single-mindedly sets out to accomplish this, sidetracked by nothing, not even a rehearsal of Falco's legendary play, The Spook Who Spoke...

(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton

About Lindsey Davis

Historical novelist Lindsey Davis is best known for her novels set in Ancient Rome, including the much-loved Marcus Didius Falco series, although she has also written about the English Civil War, including A Cruel Fate, a book for the Quick Reads literacy initiative. Her examination of the paranoid reign of the roman emperor Domitian began with Master and God, a standalone novel set in that dark period, leading to her new series about Flavia Albia. Her books are translated and five radio dramas are regularly rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4X. Her many awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crime Writers' Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. Most recently she was awarded the Ivanhoe Prize for lifetime achievement in historical fiction, given by the Spanish City of Ubeda.She has been the Chair of the UK Crimewriters' Association, Honorary President of the UK Classical Association, President of the Birmingham and Midlands Institute and is a Fellow of the UK Society of Authors.www.lindseydavis.co.ukLindsey Davis - The Crime Writers' Association (thecwa.co.uk)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on April 18, 2024

Posthumous is an interesting character. First his backstory. He is the possible half brother of Marcus Diddius Falco (the main character in the Falco series) I say possible as Falco's father did have an affair with Posthumous s mother but he died before the boy's birth and the child's mother Thalia......more

Goodreads review by Derek on May 14, 2015

Postumous, the adopted son of Falco and Helena, the brother of Flavia Alba tells a story that's more comedy than mystery, and wonderful for it. Davis' genius is in the way she makes the ancient world and its inhabitants feel almost our contemporaries; she focuses on the commonalities rather than high......more

Goodreads review by Trish on August 12, 2018

A short novel narrated by Albia’s younger adopted brother, Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus, aged 11/12, birth mother the colourful and engaging snake-dancer and entertainment entrepreneur (entrepreneuse?) Thalia (mater semper certa est!) and, allegedly, fathered by M. Didius Favonius/Geminus, Falco......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on August 21, 2015

This is not really a Flavia Albia Short Story. She is only mentioned, but never appeared in the tale. Instead it's her younger brother Postumus who tried living with his birth mother Thalia in the circus and the happenings while he was there, mainly his attempted investigation into the death of his......more

Goodreads review by Sana on July 01, 2024

3.5 Stars......more

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