Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
Formats
Description
Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.
A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss,...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 2
Formats
Description
Vicky Bliss, a beautiful brainy art historian, is embroiled in a mystery involving a forgery ring, meticulously produced antique jewelry and a handsome English rascal.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 3
Formats
Description
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...
4) Trojan Gold
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
Formats
Description
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words. But the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the bloodstained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong. The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann-no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics...
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Art historian Vicky Bliss goes to Bavaria searching for the missing gold of Troy. Soon her treasure hunt turns into a more deadly game.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
Formats
Description
On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise. The object of the trip is to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar: the wily Sir John, a master of disguise, who has been her most dangerous antagonist and her occasional lover. By the author of The Last Camel Died at Noon.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, is hired to thwart the major heist of Egyptian antiquities. Will she risk her life to stop the theft?
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The story finds university historian Vicki Bliss and her colleague, Tony, trying to track down a lost piece of German art, the last work of a master wood carver who died in the 16th century. Most of the story takes place in a medieval castle in a small German town, complete with a mysterious late-night spectre, secret passageways, and a bloody history reaching clear back to the time when the missing carving was created.
Author
Series
Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 6
Formats
Description
For the first time in more than a decade, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters brings beautiful, brainy Vicky Bliss back into the spotlight for one last investigation. But this time the peerless art historian and sleuth will be detecting in Amelia Peabody territory, searching for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings.Who stole one of Egypt's most priceless...
.png)