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Trojan gold1987

Elizabeth Peters

3.9(9)on Hardcover

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand WordsBut the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained 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 know, disappeared at the end of World War II.Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them -- including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer...

Details

First published
1987
OL Work ID
OL175842W

Subjects

FictionWomen art historiansAntiquitiesVicky Bliss (Fictitious character)MysteryDetective and mystery storiesMystery fictionBliss, vicky (fictitious character), fictionGermany, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths

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