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Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: kings, dead, laughter
Number of Pages: 356
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845297083
ISBN-13: 9781845297084

Fans of bestseller Peters’s Vicky Bliss series will welcome her solid sixth suspense novel to feature the plucky art historian, last seen in Night Train to Memphis (1994). In Munich, where Vicky is an assistant curator at the city’s National Museum, she and her longtime love, John Tregarth (formerly Sir John Smythe, notorious art thief), are shocked when their friend Feisal, the Inspector of Antiquities for all Upper Egypt, arrives unexpectedly and informs them that King Tut’s mummy has been stolen from its tomb in the Valley of the Kings and that John is the prime suspect. V

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: dragon, summer
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380731223
ISBN-13: 9780380731220

A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott to turn down. What does it matter that her rich new employer/benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of off-beat projects, from alien conspiracy studies to a hunt for dragon bones? There’s even talk of treasure buried in the nearby mountains, but D.J. isn’t going to allow loose speculation -- or the considerable charms of handsome professional treasure hunter Jesse Franklin -- to sidetrack her. Until

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: connection, copenhagen
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380733382
ISBN-13: 9780380733385

A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport. An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar’s new private assistant. But luck can go from good to bad in an instant -- and less than twenty-four hours later, the great lady is kidnapped by persons unknown. Suddenly desperate in a foreign land, Elizabeth must cast her lot with Rosenberg’s handsome, insufferable son Christian in hopes of finding her vanished benefactor. On a trail that leads from modern wonders

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: book, peabody, amelia, valley, lion
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380731193
ISBN-13: 9780380731190

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses -- and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death -- have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: storm, children
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-03
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0061032484
ISBN-13: 9780061032486

A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Avon
Keywords: caper, camelot
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0380731134
ISBN-13: 9780380731138

The Lethal Stuff of LegendsFor Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise -- an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest. And her only ally is handsome gothic novelist David Ran

Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: peabody, mysteries, amelia, bird, golden, tomb
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0060591811
ISBN-13: 9780060591816

Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson’s desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed. Now Emerson, his archaeologist wife, Amelia Peabody, and their family must watch from the sidelines as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter "discover" the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time. But the Emersons’ own less impressive excavations are interrupted when father and son Ramses are lured into a trap by a strange group of villains omi
  
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