Elizabeth Peters
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 16
Language
English
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Description
Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend, Tarek, Prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family experience various adventures in Egypt early this century while accompanying her husband who is digging in tombs. The boys go undercover in search of a villain while the daughter becomes involved in the local version of women's lib.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Seances, hypnotic trances, spectral apparitions, lost gold mines, and a mysterious disappearance combine in this suspenseful and romantic mystery featuring a food-loving heroine, fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott, sought after by several young men and equipped with the cleverness needed to unravel a complex plot.
28) Trojan gold
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
Art historian Vicky Bliss goes to Bavaria searching for the missing gold of Troy. Soon her treasure hunt turns into a more deadly game.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1983.
Language
English
Description
Victoria Bliss's receipt, at the National Museum in Munich, of a single perfect rose and an airplane ticket to Sweden, alerts her that a charming jewel thief wants her to witness another of his outlandish heists.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Vicky Bliss may be blond and beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. There's a murderous puzzle to unravel - and Vicky will start by hunting down the master craftsperson who created a magnificent gold pendant, even if the search carries her to the ends of the Earth. Instead, it's pointing her toward Rome and into a treacherous game of intrigue where the stakes could not be higher: Vicky's life!
31) Naked once more
Author
Series
[Jacqueline Kirby mysteries] volume 4
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
1990.
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
Vicky Bliss volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
[Jacqueline Kirby mysteries] volume 2
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a remote English manor house, modern admirers of the much-maligned King Richard IIIone of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villainsare 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...
34) Die for love
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A librarian takes a trip to the convention of the Historical Romance Writers of the World, and when one of the attendees turns up dead and another is being threatened she becomes involved.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss volume 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Art historian Vicky Bliss sets off to clear the name of her boyfriend, Sir John Smythe, when he is implicated in a high-profile Egyptian artifact theft, a case that is complicated by Vicky's gnawing doubts about John's innocence.
36) The love talker
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1980.
Language
English
Description
There may be worse fates than spending a few months at Idlewood, Maryland, Laurie thinks as the Chicago winter howls around her. Certainly her Aunt Ida's invitation is well-intentioned, and she can't really have meant what she said: "I have nothing of which to complain, considering my age. I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!" But when Laurie and her brother, Doug, arrive at the family home in the Maryland...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1968.
Language
English
Description
Althea Tomlinson came back to Egypt as just another tourist. But what really drove her was a desire to discover the truth behind her father's disgrace and subsequent death. Two archaeologists from her past can help her clear her father's name and help find the treasure trove of all time, the burial place of Nefertiti.
Series
Brooklyn botanic garden all-region guides volume 190
Publisher
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
A guide to community gardening uses case studies to show how it produces safe, eco-friendly food, brings neighbors together, offers science lessons for children, and gives participants the satisfaction that comes with making things grow.
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the weather outside is frightful, curl up with New York Times–bestselling masters of holiday mystery Elizabeth Peters, Margaret Maron, and more!
A New England college hosts a counterfeiting scrooge, an angelic chorister falls to earth, a tight-fisted patriarch realizes his days are numbered, and a politician presents his wife with an explosive gift. In Christmas Stalkings, bestselling mystery author Charlotte