The Silver Pigs is a 1989 historical mystery crime novel by English author Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Rome and Britannia during AD 70, just after the year of the four emperors, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent. The book's title refers to 200-pound lead ingot "pigs" filled with silver ore and stolen from Roman Britain, which feature prominently in the plot. Source: Wikipedia (en)