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Trojan gold

Elizabeth Peters

19871 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1987
first published
  • 1987Atheneum · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780689116216
  • 2000Avon Books · 363 pages · ENGISBN 9780380731237
  • 2006HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061136474
  • 2007Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9781845295325
  • 1988Tor Books · ENGISBN 9780812507584
  • 1995Tor Books · 407 pages · ENGISBN 9780812523577
  • 1992Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pagesISBN 9781664428713
  • 2006Recorded BooksISBN 9781436119863

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...

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AtmosphereNoir

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Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice
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