Elizabeth Peters
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Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just discovered a tomb in Luxor when he promptly died under bizarre circumstances. The tabloids scream of “The Curse of the Pharaohs!” Amelia and her husband arrive...
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An unexpected gift has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope bearing a newspaper clipping and no return address. There, blurred but unmistakable, is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead—Carol's father. It is a siren calling her to a world she has never known, to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Now, surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young...
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Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather—an invitation which surprises and pleases her as a chance to learn more about her family background. She's barely off the boat before a chase begins and Jess finds herself playing a game of cat and mouse through Cornwall that's bound to turn deadly.
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Ellie and Henry are young, happy, and in love, ready to spend two weeks house-sitting at her Aunt Kate's Virginia mansion. Everything is happiness and light, and then Ellie screams. The book she purchased as a special gift for Aunt Kate is a story of the town's aristocracy. Every aristocracy has its secrets, though, and Burton, Virginia, wants theirs kept that way.
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For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra. From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid. Not even the comforting presence of the perceptive and practical Jacqueline Kirby could erase the fear that was nourished by one small accident...
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The job was 600 miles away from home and that made it perfect. It didn't even matter that Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as a kook; he was, D.J. Abbot thought, merely eccentric. After all, didn't he surround himself with every self-proclaimed practitioner of the occult arts who came his way? The opportunity to spend some time on an Arizona ranch was everything a young graduate student trying to prove herself might want. And it was…until Hank suffered...
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Surely Aunt Ida couldn't really have meant what she said: “I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!” But when Laurie and her brother Doug visit her at Idlewood, they discover that Aunt Ida may indeed have something to fear in the woods.
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It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places shrouded in mystery. But in the middle of Beirut, Dinah Van der Lyn heard cries for help through her hotel room wall—in English. The brutal shattering of an evening's stillness becomes a prelude to terror. Without warning, Dinah is drawn into something unholy transpiring in the sacred city. Her search for the answers hidden in the shadows will...
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Althea Tomlinson comes back to Egypt as just another tourist. But what really drives her is a desire to discover the truth behind her father's disgrace and subsequent death. She must find a way to clear her father's name, yet doing so could also lead to Althea's death because the secret is centuries old, as old as the treasure of Nefertiti.
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Elizabeth Jones takes a vacation from her New York publishing job to visit Denmark. On the plane she meets famous historian Margaret Rosenberg and her son Christian. When Margaret vanishes in Copenhagen, Elizabeth helps Christian search the city for her. What they dig up will connect her disappearance to an ancient artifact and the oldest of motives for crime.