Download or read book Venus in Copper written by Lindsey Davis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heyday of the Roman Empire a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most hard-done-by investigator is sprung from jail and accepts a commission to help a family of freed slaves fend off a professional bribe.