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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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 all things considered, it would have been no contest. The prize was a centuries-old shrine carved by Tilman Riemenschneider, probably Germany's greatest master of the late Gothic period. The place was the forbidding Schloss Drachenstein, where the stones...
13) The mummy case
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Disgusted when he is denied access to the pyramids of Dahshoor, Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson, aided by his archaeologist wife Amelia Peabody, finds his curiosity piqued when an antiquities dealer is murdered and a mummy case disappears.
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Another thrilling mystery featuring the resourceful and clever archaeologist Amelia Peabody.
After narrowly escaping a kidnapping in London, Amelia Peabody travels to Cairo during the 1907 archaeological dig season. After arriving in Egypt, Amelia and her unconventional family soon encounter a mystery involving stolen treasures. And when a rare papyrus of the Book of the Dead falls into their hands, Amanda and her family are pursued by murderous...
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It is a dream come true for Susan, who loves all things Scottish, when she gets to go on an archaeological dig in the Highlands. But a cryptic message slipped to Susan by a sinister soapbox orator is the first puzzle. And why are she and Jamie Erskine being pursued by the police who want to talk to them about murder?
17) Die for love
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The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her...
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Adventure and romance enter Vicky Bliss' life in the form of a black-and-white photograph of a woman covered from head to toe in gold jewels. This "Trojan Gold" has an intriguing history, but it is the envelope that piques Vicky's curiosity. It is a grimy brown, with no return address, and it appears to have been soaked in blood.
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One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic "message" consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss -- as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously inquisitive, Vicky recognizes the handiwork of her former lover, the daring jewel thief John Smythe. So she takes the bait, eagerly following Smythe's lead in the hope of finding a lost treasure. But the trail begins with...
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Second book in the Jacqueline Kirby series. Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair. The hosts and guests, all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, hope to clear his name of the five- hundred-year-old accusation of murder. Jacqueline is amused at first at the group's eccentricities, until the antics of a practical joker become more and more macabre, and one at last proves fatal.