Trojan gold

by Elizabeth Peters

First published 1987 · 358 pages

About this book

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...

  • Fiction
  • Women art historians
  • Antiquities
  • Vicky Bliss (Fictitious character)
  • Mystery
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Mystery fiction
  • Germany, fiction

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