Elizabeth Peters
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Series
Language
English
Description
Back in London after an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody-"rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one"٬٢٠١٤؛discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in the shadow of a mummy case. There are murmurings about an ancient curse, but a skeptical Amelia is determined to find an all-too-human killer. Soon, she's balancing family demands, including the troubles of her precocious...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Series
Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
When Jacqueline Kirby is hired to write a sequel to Kathleen Darcy's Naked in the Ice, she falls prey to a series of nasty accidents. Maybe Kathleen Darcy's disappearance seven years ago wasn't suicide after all.
Author
Series
Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
In a remote English manor house, modern admirers of the much-maligned King Richard III--one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villains--are gathered for a grand weekend of dress-up and make-believe murder. But the fun ends when the masquerade turns more sinister ... and deadly. Jacqueline Kirby, an American librarian on hand for the festivities, suddenly finds herself in the center of strange, dark doings ... and racing to untangle a murderous puzzle...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
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Series
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a stranger bursts into her elegant Cairo hotel suite and dies from injuries sustained during an interrupted assassination attempt on her life, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, witness the discovery of one of the most precious Egyptian artifacts while navigating the murderous activities of master-of-disguise, Sethos.
12) Die for love
Author
Series
Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Kirby attends a New York writers' conference and finds herself in the midst of a murder mystery and romantic entanglements -- Publisher summary.