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Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago .
The Vicky Bliss Mysteries is a mystery novel series by Barbara Mertz, [1] writing as Elizabeth Peters. [2] A published Egyptologist, Mertz wrote three mystery series and a number of stand-alone novels under the name Elizabeth Peters [3] plus gothic and supernatural thrillers under the name Barbara Michaels.
Amelia Peabody is introduced in the series' first novel, Crocodile on the Sandbank, as a confirmed spinster, suffragist, and scholar, living in England in 1884.She inherits a fortune from her father and leaves England to see the world, with the side benefit of escaping various suitors and family members who were neither aware that she would be the sole beneficiary of her father's estate nor ...
Amelia Peabody Emerson is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of historical mystery novels written by author Elizabeth Peters (a pseudonym of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz, 1927–2013).
It is the sixth of nine "stand alone" books written by prolific author Barbara Mertz under the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym. (The vast majority of novels written under the Barbara Michaels pseudonym are stand alones.) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 919 libraries. [1]
Vicky Bliss is an art historian in a book series by Barbara Mertz beginning in 1973 with Borrower of the Night. Molly Blume is an Orthodox Jewish true-crime reporter and author who appears in a series of books by Rochelle Majer Krich (2002–2005). Kensi Blye is an NCIS Special Agent (played by Daniela Ruah) on NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–).
Elizabeth Peters' background in Egyptology lends authenticity to the settings and the history presented in the novel. The method of travel by boat ("dahabeeyah") down the Nile that was popular in the late 1800s, as well as the customs of the various cultures, are true to the era.
Kirkus Reviews finds the interplay between the fictional and the real characters (real people in history, like Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon) the most interesting aspect of this historical novel: “The political machinations are less interesting than the competition between the archaeologists and the Emerson family.” [1] The author “has great fun dressing her characters up in Victorian ...