false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170652197m/66504.jpg 66504 13 <p><i>A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words</i></p> <p>But 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.<p>The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann&#8212;no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II. <p>Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them&#8212;including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer... 1861953 1987 Trojan Gold (Vicky Bliss, #4) total:689|5:184|4:292|3:180|2:29|1:4| 689 2690 844 27 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Aug 29 18:52:39 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 20:14:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 06 11:43:29 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 11:45:15 -0800 2007 4 1 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 24 16:16:10 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 07 09:51:32 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 15 11:32:55 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 05 17:04:05 -0800 2009
The picture is of an elderly woman wearing rich gold jewelry. At some length, Vicky recognizes it as the jewels that Heinrich Schliemann discovered at the site of Troy - the jewels that he draped around his Greek wi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 22 18:01:53 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 18:03:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 20:32:23 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 21:53:26 -0700 2008 3 Trojan Gold, Book 4 of the Vicky Bliss series, fights very, very hard with Book 5 for my favorite book of the entire lot, and it's one of my favorites by Elizabeth Peters in general. It boasts some of her strongest writing, a fairly decent and substantial plot, and some nifty upping of the romantic ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:30:10 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:34:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:58:28 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 15:02:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Sep 07 21:31:31 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 21:32:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jan 02 13:56:56 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 13:57:12 -0800 2009
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I adore John Smythe!
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