Vicky Bliss Series by Elizabeth Peters

3.88 · 120 ratings
  • The Camelot Caper (Vicky Bliss #0.5)
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    The Camelot Caper (Vicky Bliss #0.5)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1969

    Jessica Tregarth went to England to visit her grandfather: an invitation which surprised and pleased her. The only link she had with her dead father’s family was an antique ring he had brought with him to America. This would be a chance to learn more about who she is; it would be fun.She’s barely off the boat before the chase begins and Jess finds herself playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse through Cornwall, helped by David Randall, the ingenious author of a series of paperback gothic novels... more

  • Borrower of the Night (Vicky Bliss #1)
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    Borrower of the Night (Vicky Bliss #1)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1973

    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... more

  • Street of the Five Moons (Vicky Bliss #2)
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    Street of the Five Moons (Vicky Bliss #2)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1978

    What did it all mean? The note with the hieroglyphs was found in the pocket of a man lying dead in an alley. The only other item of interest was a piece of jewelry, a reproduction of the Charlemagne talisman. It was good, so good that Vicky Bliss thought she was being shown the real jewel. The goldwork was done by a master; the jewels weren’t glass but top-quality synthetic stones. What did it mean?Vicky didn’t know … yet... more

  • Silhouette in Scarlet (Vicky Bliss #3)
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    Silhouette in Scarlet (Vicky Bliss #3)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1983

    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... more

  • Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4)
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    Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1987

    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... more

  • Night Train to Memphis (Vicky Bliss #5)
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    Night Train to Memphis (Vicky Bliss #5)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1994

    An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as "Sir John Smythe... more

  • The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense (Vicky Bliss #6)
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    The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense (Vicky Bliss #6)

    Elizabeth Peters

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2008

    “A royal treat….Welcome back, Vicky Bliss!...For readers new to Vicky’s sassy and distinctively smart stories, The Laughter of Dead Kings will mark the start of a beautiful friendship.”—Tampa Tribune New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters—author of the thrilling fictional exploits of archaeologist Amelia Peabody in the Land of the Pharaohs—brings back beautiful, brainy art expert and sometime sleuth Vicky Bliss for one last adventure in The Laughter of Dead Kings... more

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