Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publication: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (October 9, 2018)
Description: Four classic stories by the New York Times bestselling “grandmaster” of mystery, each paired with an incisive new introduction (Publishers Weekly).
A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead with her hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. Two sisters take shelter in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road…only to discover they’re not alone. And the author’s most beloved characters, Amelia Peabody and Radcliff Emerson, make an appearance in a newly uncovered tale with a witty nod to Sherlock Holmes.
The Locked Tomb Mystery presents an unforgettable quartet of short mysteries from one of the genre’s greatest practitioners. An expanded edition of Peters’s Mystery Stories, this volume includes the never-before-collected story, “Vengeance of Sekhmet”—along with a new preface by Barbara G. Mertz and new introductions to each story by mystery authors Tasha Alexander, Juliet Blackwell, and Daniel Stashower, and Egyptologist Salima Ikram.
My Thoughts: This book includes four of Barbara Mertz's short stories which each come from one aspect of her writing. Mertz was an Egyptologist who wrote under the names of Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters for her fiction work and her own name for popular books on Egyptology.
The book includes a short story which brings back her beloved characters Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson who need to solve a mystery of a presumed curse. There is another mystery set in ancient Egypt.
The Runaway was a ghost story which fits in with most of her work as Barbara Michaels. And Liz Peters, PI was evidence of the humor she infused in many of her stories. It tells of a mystery author who also works as a private investigator and is a gender bent send-up of the hard-boiled mystery genre.
I enjoyed the introductions to each of the stories which tell how Mertz influenced a variety of writers and egyptologists in her long career.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one. You can buy your copy here.
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