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David Wishart
Full Series List in Order
A Marcus Corvinus Mystery
1 - Ovid (1995)2 - Germanicus (1997)
3 - The Lydian Baker (1998)
4 - Sejanus (1998)
4 - The Horse Coin (1999)
5 - Old Bones (2000)
6 - Last Rites (2001)
7 - White Murder (Sep-2002)
8 - A Vote for Murder (Sep-2003)
9 - Parthian Shot (2004)
10 - Food for the Fishes (Sep-2005)
11 - In at the Death (Oct-2007)
12 - Illegally Dead (Jun-2008)
13 - Bodies Politic (Jan-2011)
14 - No Cause for Concern (Jul-2012)
15 - Solid Citizens (Nov-2013)
16 - Finished Business (Nov-2014)
17 - Trade Secrets (Feb-2016)
18 - Foreign Bodies (Sep-2016)
Book List in Order: 24 titles
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Germanicus
- 1997
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No good deed goes unpunished. Marcus Corvinus, the party-boy of ancient Rome, hasn?t committed many good deeds, but his most recent (see Ovid) was a doozy. And sure enough, here comes punishment. Why else would he have been summoned to see the Empres...
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The Lydian Baker
- 1998
- / Historical Mystery
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When the solid gold statue of a female baker gifted to the oracle at Delphi by King Croesus of Lydia and missing for over three centuries unexpectedly reappears on the Athenian black market, Corvinus’s stepfather Helvius Priscus recruits him as go-...
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The Horse Coin
- 1999
- / Historical Mystery
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Britain AD59: The scars of Roman conquest are still livid, the clash of two disparate cultures a source of bitterness and conflict. The Roman ruling class believe it is their duty to civilise the natives; the British tribes chafe under the conquero...
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Last Rites
- 2001
- / Historical Mystery
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It is the morning after the nocturnal rite of the good Goddess, an all-female ceremony, and the body of a young woman has been found with her throat cut. Hoping to avoid scandal, Senator Lucius Arruntius calls in Marcus Corvinus to do some discreet ...
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White Murder
- Sep-2002
- / Historical Mystery
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When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. Tracking the murderer down takes Marcus deep into the murky world of Roman chariot-racing with all it...
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A Vote for Murder
- Sep-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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Marcus Corvinus is spending a few days in the Alban Hills, while taking a mild interest in the forthcoming consul's elections. Then one of the two candidates is murdered, and Corvinus is all too pleased to put his holiday on hold and help with the in...
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Parthian Shot
- 2004
- / Historical Mystery
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While conducting an investigation into an attack on the Parthian Prince Phraates, one of the Parthian delegation is murdered and a full diplomatic incident threatens. The byzantine twists and turns of the case give Corvinus a headache that rivals his...
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Food for the Fishes
- Sep-2005
- / Historical Mystery
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When Licinius Murena, wealthy fish-farm owner, is found dead, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, nor by his widow, daugher, or farm manager. With friends like these, who ne...
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In at the Death
- Oct-2007
- / Historical Mystery
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The sudden suicide of a young man prompts his family to ask veteran sleuth Marcus Corvinus to investigate. As usual, Marcus needs Perilla’s agile brain to untangle the case, which grows more complex by the minute. Eventually the pair realizes tha...
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Illegally Dead
- Jun-2008
- / Historical Mystery
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When Corvinus receives a letter from his adopted daughter, Marilla, with a tantalizing postscript mentioning a possible murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not everyone, however, agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was ...
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Bodies Politic
- Jan-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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David Wishart's Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus returns in this gripping mystery. When Marcus Corvinus is given a letter from Sertorius Macro, the Emperor Caligula's erstwhile adviser forced into suicide for plotting against him, claiming that he was in...
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No Cause for Concern
- Jul-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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'I need a favour from you, Corvinus. Do what Occusia asks, and I'll be very grateful. Very grateful indeed. Turn her down, or fudge things, and - watch my lips here, please - you'll wish that you'd never been born. Your choice, absolutely no pressure...
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Solid Citizens
- Nov-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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December, AD39. While enjoying the Winter Festival holiday at his adopted daughter’s home in the Alban Hills, Marcus Corvinus discovers that an outwardly respectable pillar of the community, local politician Quintus Caesius has been discovered beat...
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Finished Business
- Nov-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus uncovers a treasonous plot in this witty and intriguing new mystery November, AD 40. When a wealthy consul’s wife asks Corvinus to investigate the death of her uncle, killed by a block of falling masonry duri...
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Trade Secrets
- Feb-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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The intriguing, witty and irreverent new mystery featuring Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus May, AD 41. The emperor Claudius has acceded to the throne, and the citizens of Rome look forward to an era of peace and stability. Not so Marcus Corv...
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Foreign Bodies
- Sep-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is dispatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor. June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus’s help in investigating the murder of a Gallic wine merchant, stabbed to death as...
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Family Commitments
- Jun-2017
- / Suspense
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Bathyllus was standing with his back to me, and sitting on the bed was a seriously-unshaven late-middle-aged man in a grubby threadbare tunic. Bathyllus turned round, the guy got up, and they both stared at me, jaws dropping, like actors at the end o...
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Going Back
- Jul-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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When the ex-praetor husband of a friend of Claudius’s mother-in-law is found murdered on his estate near Carthage the emperor gives Corvinus the job of working out whodunnit. The twentieth book in the Marcus Corvinus series....
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Dead Men's Sandals
- Mar-2020
- / General Fiction
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'Ah, Corvinus.' Eutacticus was beaming. Bad sign; bad, bad sign. 'Glad you could make it. Sit down, boy. You had a good summer?'Oh, shit; small talk. With Eutacticus you never, ever got small talk. Forget bad; in terms of signs we were into fully-fle...
