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It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For the beautiful and brilliant Vicky Bliss, it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And... |
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"Gothica in the irreverent trappings I like best." -Allen J. Hubin, New York Times Book Review
"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key."... |
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Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark-gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli... look for a missing person? The plane ride... |
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| Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Victorian, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and her sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia... |
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| The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentle-woman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad. While she and her husband, archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, dutifully go about raising their young son,... |
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| Dinah Van der Lyn hears the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut. "Help" is the only English word spoken. She thinks the men are simply drunk and... |
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When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. For no one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of an ancient... |
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The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool,... |
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| "Grace Conlin's facility for dialect enriches this pleasant mystery...Her rich, deep voice effortlessly imparts life to the variety of accents and ages, and her superlative narration even makes a... |
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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... |
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