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Zusatztext A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels, and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor, at the Malice Domestic convention. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen . Klappentext A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of 16th-century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and a male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of 16th-century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and a male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Zusammenfassung A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of 16th-century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and a male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly.
