The Locked Tomb Mystery: And Other Stories - Paperback

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by Elizabeth Peters (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was one of the pseudonyms of American writer Barbara Louise Mertz, whose New York Times-bestselling Amelia Peabody mysteries are often set against historical backdrops. In 1952, Peters earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was named grand master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention.

Number of Pages: 132

Dimensions: 0.32 x 7.95 x 5.2 IN

Publication Date: October 09, 2018