Elizabeth Peters
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English
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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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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
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English
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On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. She also has the brain of an Einstein, the reckless courage of a test pilot -- and no one's more savvy about fine works of art. For example: the gold pendant her boss at Munich's National Museum is currently dangling in front of her. It's an exquisite replica of a Charlemagne talisman -- and it was found, along with a note written in hieroglyphs, sewn into the suit...
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English
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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...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
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English
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"Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. Peters' mysteries are so irresistible, The Washington Post Book World says, "the public library needs to keep her books under lock and key." This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds,...
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Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 2
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English
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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...
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
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English
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
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English
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"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...
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. But the trail begins with...
31) Naked once more
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Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 4
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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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.
34) Die for love
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Jacqueline Kirby mysteries volume 3
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c1984
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English
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Jacqueline Kirby attends a New York writers' conference and finds herself in the midst of a murder mystery and romantic entanglements -- Publisher summary.