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{{quote|''Some men are born lucky, others are called Didius Falco.''}}
Central character and [[The Narrator|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 "[[The Maltese Falcon|Sam Spade in a Toga]]", but existing centuries before [[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 Silver Pigs'' (1989)
# ''Shadows In Bronze'' (1990)
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# ''Nemesis'' (2010)
Flavia Albia is Marcus Didius Falco's adopted daughter. '''Books in the "Flavia Albia" series:'''
And its almost-prequel, ''The Course Of Honour'' (1998)▼
# ''[[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)
▲And its almost-prequel, ''The Course Of Honour'' (1998).{{verify}}
Not to be confused with the [[w:Falco (musician)|late Austrian musician responsible for "Rock Me, Amadeus"]].
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▲{{tropelist|the Marcus Didius Falco series}}
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Rome's ''Cloaca Maxima'', which is just about as [[Squick]] as it sounds.
* [[Asshole Victim]] - Happens from time to time, but particularly obvious in ''Ode to a Banker'' with Chryssipus. {{spoiler|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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