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Illegally Dead (Marcus Corvinus Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Wishart
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
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Sales Rank: 11730
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0340840390
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340840399
ASIN: 0340840390
Publication Date: December 11, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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a very absorbing read April 23, 2008
tregatt (Portland, Oregon)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This fast paced and engrossing Marcus Corvinus installment finds Marcus and his wife, Perilla, visiting the small town of Castrimonenium, in order to figure out whether or not a local lawyer was murdered.
When Marcus and Perilla receive a letter from their adopted daughter, Marilla, intimating that a murder may have been committed in the town she's currently residing in, they immediately make for Castrimoneium in order to get more information. It turns out that the lawyer, Lucius Hostillius has succumbed to a heart seizure and has passed away. But Lucius' doctor, Hyperion, is not satisfied and fears that someone may have tampered with the dosage. The trouble is that in accordance of Roman law, if Hyperion voices his suspicions, Lucius' household slaves would be rounded up and tortured in order to prise information from them. And Hyperion would rather not say anything unless the evidence that Lucius had been "helped" to his death is conclusive. And so he asks Marcus Corvinus to look into the matter. But Marcus will have to work on the quiet so as not to arouse the interest of the authorities. Can our intrepid investigator pull this off?
I've been a fan of this series ever since I read "Ovid." But I have to admit that fan though I am, I haven't read every single installment in this series. What I have read I have liked immensely; finding the books to be well written, finely paced, taut and full of wonderful historical detail and ambiance. This is all true of "Illegally Dead." David Wishart does a first rate job here of executing and fleshing out this tale and of keeping one guessing as to what exactly is going on and who the guilty parties are. All in all this was a very engrossing and absolutely riveting read -- even as I confess that a couple of thing grated: namely that Marcus seemed to jump to some rather premature assumptions about his suspects based solely on his reactions towards them (and had to be talked around to sense by Perilla); and that I found Marcus' 'tough' street voice to be a little incongruous and a little false. Would a patrician have such a narrative voice? I'm going to have to reread "Ovid" in order to find out.
back in the Alban Hills February 16, 2008
Mrs. S. M. Burns (Cardiff)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Corvinus is back in the Alban Hills, investigating a suspicious death. As usual, questions abound. The widow's grief is clearly sincere, but why is she hiding so much? Why was the victim attacked in the street, six days before his death, by a man no one recognised? Why is his partner in the legal firm still so upset by the death, decades ago, of his first wife? There are more personal matters too. The Corvinus household is getting older; we seem to be about to lose one member to old age, while another is contemplating marriage. Young Clarus, Marilla's boyfriend, is introducing us to the Roman medical world and its increasing interest in the autopsy. But the two most pressing questions are; what are Gabba and the other lads at Pontius's wineshop up to in secret, and why has Meton, Corvinus's bolshie gorilla of a cook, taken to going out dressed in a clean tunic and wearing perfume? Corvinus thinks he has guessed the answer, but it's much more surprising than that....
One thing that's beginning to look interesting. We already know Corvinus has a horror of mental incapacity. Now once again, as in "Food for the Fishes", he says if he ever became mentally incapable he hopes someone would oblige him with a mercy killing. I'm beginning to wonder if Wishart is building up to confronting him with this problem close to home.
Not the all-time best from this series but well up to standard.
The Latest Case for Marcus Corvinus February 9, 2008
J. Chippindale (England)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics - Latin and Greek - at Edinburgh University and after graduation taught for four years in a secondary school. He then retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and worked abroad for eleven years, in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990 and now lives with his family in Carnoustie, mixing writing with teaching EFL and study skills at Dundee University.
It is up to the individual reader whether they prefer David Wishart's Marcus Corvinus, or the Lindsey Davis character Marcus Didius Falco. Personally I like them both and eagerly await a book by either author. The two characters of Corvinus and Falco both have endearing qualities and in many ways are very similar to one another, although the author's have placed them in different periods of Roman history. Their outlook on life is similar in many ways and their professions are much the same, that is to try to solve the many mysteries that take place in the glorious city that is Rome.
In this latest book featuring Marcus Corvinus a letter from his daughter sets his senses racing when she intimates that there may have been a murder. Although he has no official status Marcus is on the scent like the proverbial bloodhound and decides to do some moonlighting on the investigation front. Marcus certainly has no shortage of suspects. The dead man Lucius Hostilius had been poisoned but before he died had managed to virtually alienate most if not all of his family and friends by his weird and out of character behaviour. Of course as with all books featuring Marcus Corvinus, his running battle with his major domo (for want of a better word) and cook almost merit a book on its own. And of course his long suffering wife Perilla is usually there to ease him out of any scrapes he may find himself in.
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