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| Title | : | Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4) |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Peters |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2000 by Avon (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Romance |
Elizabeth Peters
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4.06 | 3973 Users | 151 Reviews
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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...
Itemize Books As Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4)
| Original Title: | Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss, #4) |
| ISBN: | 0380731231 (ISBN13: 9780380731237) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Vicky Bliss #4 |
| Characters: | Vicky Bliss |
| Setting: | Bavaria(Germany) |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988) |
Rating Regarding Books Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4)
Ratings: 4.06 From 3973 Users | 151 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss #4)
3.5 starstbh I'll love anything with John and Schmidt (and that L O V E CONFESSION!!) but I feel like it was much more confusing/not as well plotted as TLODK.This has always been my favorite Vicky Bliss story. I love the snow and Christmas in Germany. I love the way John pops in and out of the story and Schmidt keeps trying to follow her with his silly disguises. There's plenty of mystery, suspects galore and the occasional dead body to keep the plot rolling. It's romantic suspense at it's best - if you like it short on romance and more farcical that suspenseful, though there are some tense moments, too. It's just an all around fun read that never
Best so far of the Vicky Bliss series; the author may have been getting her feet under her better by now, in this early/mid-career book, partly in writing but mostly in a grip on the characters, who get some more room to develop.Some weird scene transitions here and there, as if a scene break had dropped out between paragraphs, creating transitional whiplash; this also appears in some other of the books. I'm not sure if it's a formatting defect or just an oddity of the writing style, which tends
As I start downloading lady mysteries, I am reminded that this is one of my favorite series and this one of my favorite books of it. These characters sparkle together like few others do. Great mystery, great romance. Setting the bar high as I revisit the genre!
Time for a new copy of this book; I have literally read the one I've got into pieces! Man, there are some great bits in this one--the night in the abandoned church, Tony's arrival at Vicky's house, John's confession, Schmidt in a skin tight Santa outfit... It was nice to see Tony back again, and Dieter and Jan are interesting characters as well. I feel like Peters really hit her stride with the series in this book--it's much longer than the previous volumes, as well as much funnier and much more
I saw that someone added this to their shelf called "guilty-pleasures" and I'd have to agree that's pretty accurate. Vicky Bliss is a fine Elizabeth Peters heroine (and actually refreshingly different than good old Amelia Peabody...nothing wrong with Amelia... just a different pace) but the real draw here is her mysterious nemesis, John Smythe. Is he good? Is he bad? Only one thing's for sure... he's a smooth operator!My husband must really love me. He actually listened to me read this book a
In the fourth book of the Vicky Bliss series, the relationship between Vicky and Sir John Smith develops a bit more amid the usual madcap adventures (this time in Germany), and is the source of some of the best dialog. The plot is pretty unbelievable (mysterious photograph in the mail? Why not just write a letter? Or make a phone call?), but we are not reading this series for realism. Even so, this one veers into pure silliness at times. Or maybe I just need to take a break from this Vicky Bliss
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