Lindsey Davis

Lindsey Davis (born August 21, 1949 in Birmingham ) is a British writer best known for her historical crime novels about the Roman detective Marcus Didius Falco .

Live and act

After studying English literature at Lady Margaret Hall College ( Oxford University ), she entered the civil service, which she left after thirteen years. After a romance novel she had written won second place in the 1985 Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize competition , she decided to pursue a career as a writer and initially wrote serial romance novels for the British women's magazine Woman's Realm .

Her interest in history and archeology led to a historical novel about the Roman Emperor Vespasian and his lover Antonia Caenis ( The Course of Honor , Eng. The Emperor's Companion ), for which she could not find a publisher. She tried again with a detective novel set in the same era, The Silver Pigs (German silver pigs ). This very successful novel about the Roman investigator Marcus Didius Falco , published in 1989, was followed by 19 sequels and an accompanying book by 2010. Her first novel about Vespasian was finally published in 1998.

After two other historical novels published in 2009 and 2012, Davis began a new series of historical detective novels in 2013 about the Roman investigator Flavia Albia , Falco's adopted daughter.

Awards

• 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for Two for the Lions (dt. The lion to eat )
• 2002 Herodotus Award from the US American The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society (HMAS) in recognition of previous literary life's work
• 2011 Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award , the highest award from the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for an author's life's work to date

Works (selection)

Marcus Didius Falco series

• Volume 1 - The Silver Pigs . Pan Books, London 1990, ISBN 0-330-31183-2 .
  • German: Silberschweine . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-63082-6 .
• Volume 2 - Shadows in Bronze . Pan Books, London 1991, ISBN 0-330-31184-0 .
  • German: bronze shadow . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-71105-2 .
• Volume 3 - Venus in Copper . Hutchinson, London 1991, ISBN 0-09-174818-6 .
  • German: Kupfervenus . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-426-63149-0 .
• Volume 4 - The Iron Hand of Mars . Hutchinson, London 1992, ISBN 0-09-175333-3 .
  • German: iron hand . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-63042-7 .
• Volume 5 - Poseidon's Gold . Century Books, London 1992.
  • German: Poseidon's gold . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-63095-8 .
• Volume 6 - Last Act in Palmyra . Arrow Books, London 1995, ISBN 0-09-983180-5 .
  • German: Last act in Palmyra . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-63079-6 .
• Volume 7 - Time to Depart . Arrow Books, London 1996, ISBN 0-09-933881-5 .
  • German: grace period . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-63113-X .
• Volume 8 - A Dying Light in Corduba . Arrow Books, London 1996, ISBN 0-09-933891-2 .
  • German: Twilight in Cordoba . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-63107-5 .
• Volume 9 - Three Hands in the Fountain . Arrow Books, London 1998, ISBN 0-09-979951-0 .
  • German: Three hands in the well . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-62516-4 .
• Volume 10 - Two for the Lions . Arrow Books, London 1999, ISBN 0-09-979961-8 .
  • German: The lion to eat . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-426-66069-5 .
• Volume 11 - One Virgin Too Many . Arrow Books, London 2000, ISBN 0-09-979971-5 .
  • German: One virgin too many . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-426-62674-8 .
• Volume 12 - Ode to a Banker . Arrow Books, London 2001, ISBN 0-09-929820-1 .
  • German: death of a patron . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-62944-5 .
• Volume 13 - A Body in the Bath House . Arrow Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-09-929830-9 .
  • German: A corpse in the bathhouse . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-63360-4 .
• Volume 14 - The Jupiter Myth . Arrow Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-09-929840-6 .
  • German: Murder in Londinium . Knaur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-63236-5 .
• Volume 15 - The Accusers . Century Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-7126-2556-9 .
  • German: death of a senator . Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-63662-6 .
• Volume 16 - Scandal Takes a Holiday . Century Books, London 2004, ISBN 0-7126-2587-9 .
  • German: The secret of the scriptor . Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-50259-4 .
• Volume 17 - See Delphi and Die . Century Books, London 2005, ISBN 0-7126-3728-1 .
  • German: See Delphi and die . Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-50260-0 .
• Volume 18 - Saturnalia . Century Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84605-034-3 .
  • German: murder in the atrium . Knaur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-50261-7 .
• Volume 19 - Alexandria . Century Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84605-287-3 .
• Volume 20 - Nemesis . Century Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84605-612-3 .

• Falco. The Official Companion . Century Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84605-673-4 .

Flavia Albia series

1. The Ides of April . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-4447-5581-7 .
2. Enemies at home . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-4447-6660-8 .
3. Deadly Election . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-4447-9422-9 .
4. The Graveyard of the Hesperides . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4736-1336-2 .
5. The Third Nero . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-4736-1341-6 .
6. Pandora's Boy . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-4736-5863-9 .
7. A Capitol Death . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-4736-5873-8 .
8. The Grove of the Caesars . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2020, ISBN 978-1-5293-7425-4 .

Other

• The Course of Honor . Arrow Books, London 1997, ISBN 0-09-922742-8 .
  • German: The Emperor's Companion . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-63108-3 .
• Rebels and Traitors . Century Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-1-84605-632-1 .
• Master and God . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-4447-0732-8 .
• A cruel fate . Hodder & Stoughton, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-4447-6317-1 .

literature

• Carl E. Rollyson: Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction. Volume 2: Lindsey Davis - Rupert Holmes . Salem Press, Pasadena, Calif. 2008, ISBN 978-1-58765-399-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} According to the publisher (as of 2014), no translation into German is planned.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lindsey Davis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Lindsey Davis
• Interview with Lindsey Davis (in English)