Vicky Bliss

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Borrower of the Night

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 25 April 1974

It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle--and the challenge to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. The prize was a centuries-old shrine. The problem was that someone had targeted Vicky Bliss--and that the game was soon being played in earnest!

Street of Five Moons

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 1 April 1979

Silhouette in Scarlet

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 1 January 1983

One perfect rose and one perfectly mysterious plane ticket to Stockholm have American art historian and sleuth Vicky Bliss off to Sweden and over her pretty head (and a 5' 11," that's deep) in danger. Her former lover, the sexy bad boy of the antiquities world, Sir John Smythe, has set her up for a rendezvous with trouble, not romance. Before Vicky can say Leif Eriksson, she's being courted by a dashing Viking, shadowed by an elderly silhouette cutter, and whisked away by limousine to an island mansion in search of long-lost Nordic treasure. Vicky never suspects that her life may depend on finding it - or that her feminine urge to kill the rascally Sir John may lead to his murder, at someone else's hand...

Trojan Gold

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 1 January 1987

A picture is worth a thousand words . . . but the photograph Vicky Bliss received gave rise to a thousand questions, and the answers to some of them were deadly. But the picture sparked a ruthless scramble for the legendary gold of Troy. "A scintillating, captivating tale".--Library Journal.

Night Train to Memphis

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 1 September 1994

Vicky Bliss is the first to admit she doesn't know a thing about Egyptology. But her familiarity with criminality brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she can't refuse: they want her as an undercover operative on a luxury Nile cruise because certain information has come their way that a major theft of Egyptian antiquities is in the works.

Vicky suspects the man they are seeking is her occasional lover and frequent adversary, Sir John Smythe.Then, on the first day of her Nile cruise, she spots him - with a beautiful woman clinging to his arm.

Stunned and furious, Vicky is too preoccupied with her own feelings to concentrate on crime on the cruise - but then one of the crew is brutally murdered and Vicky finds she must put all her emotions aside and join forces with her duplicitous lover if she wants to solve the case...

The Laughter of Dead Kings

by Elizabeth Peters

Published 1 August 2008

The heist of the century has taken place in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, and Vicki's on/off boyfriend, Sir John Smythe, is a prime suspect.

Despite his insistence that he is no longer in the business of stealing antiquities and art objects, even Vicky isn't one hundred percent certain he has not fallen back into his old habits. Pursued by Interpol, the Egyptian police, rival gangs of illicit antiquities thieves, and (worse of all) Vicky's inquisitive boss, Anton Z. Schmidt, she and John set out on a wild chase across Europe and Egypt in an attempt to clear him by finding the real culprits and retrieving the stolen object.