Silhouette in Scarlet [electronic resource]
Peters, Elizabeth2011
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'One of Elizabeth Peters' best thrillers yet& and so funny you will laugh aloud' PW One red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic message in Latin intrigue Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Vicky recognises the handiwork of her former lover, jewel thief John Smythe, and she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope offinding a lost treasure. But the trail begins at a priceless fifth century chalice which will place Vicky at the mercy of a gang of ruthless criminals who have their eyes on an even more valuable prize. And the hunt threatens to turn deadly on a remote island, where a captive Vicky must dig deep at an excavation into the distant past.
Main title:
Silhouette in Scarlet [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Peters
Author:
Peters, Elizabeth, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Little, Brown Book Group, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Vicky Bliss
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
ISBN:
9781780334530
Language:
English
BRN:
2759917
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