On an abandoned Santa Fe ranch a young archaeologist finds a letter written sixteen years earlier yet, mysteriously, mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a lost city of gold that will make him famous--and...
Women archaeologists
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Auteur:Neggers, CarlaSommaire:One year ago archaeologist Sophie Malone endured a night of terror while spelunking on a remote Irish island. Now she is convinced that what she discovered during that horrifying trip is related to a spate of violence besetting Boston....
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Auteur:Baron, Aileen G.Sommaire:War time Tangier, policed by Franco’s Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
Amelia hopes to rekindle some of the old fire with Emerson in a return journey to Amarna, Egypt where they met 13 years before. But her plan is foiled when Emerson emerges from a night-time ambush typically furious and with absolutely...
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Auteur:Kearsley, SusannaSommaire:Peter Quinell was obsessively searching for the final resting place of the Ninth Legion, supposedly lost when sent north in the 2nd Century AD to deal with some rebellious Picts. The Ninth Legion lay here, thought Peter, because a local...
- Auteur:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Sommaire:
FBI Agent Corrie Swanson takes on a new case involving a fifty-year-old, mummified corpse. Out of her depth, she soon realizes she needs the help of her foe-turned-ally, archaeologist Nora Kelly.
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Auteur:Baron, Aileen G.Sommaire:It is 1943 and the world is at war. Archaeologist Lily Sampson has been sent to Trans-Jordan by the OSS, along with Gideon Weil, the famous director of the American School of Archeology in Jerusalem. As part of their survey, they roam...
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Auteur:Meade, GlennSommaire:Dr. Laura Pavlov, a forensic archaeologist, discovers two bodies perfectly preserved in permafrost on the outskirts of the Russian city where the Romanov royal family was executed in 1918. What she learns sheds light on the death of...
- Auteur:Khoury, RaymondSommaire:
With elegant music wafting through the alcoves of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, black-tied gentlemen and white-gowned ladies applaud the unveiling of the Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Then suddenly--with sabers swinging and...
- Auteur:Cameron, ClaireSommaire:
40,000 years in the past, the last family of Neanderthals roams the earth. After a crushingly hard winter, their numbers are low, but Girl, the oldest daughter, is just coming of age and her family is determined to travel to the annual...
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Auteur:Hunt, StephenSommaire:Professor Amelia Harsh searches for the legendary city of Camlantis on her quest for the perfect society--a quest that has a good chance of bringing her own world to the brink of destruction as she faces off against convicts, female...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her...
- Auteur:PETERS, ElizabethSommaire:
An Egyptian murder-mystery featuring Amelia Peabody.
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As Amelia and her family arrive in Egypt for their annual archaeological excursion, trouble erupts when a Peabody relative is accused of selling really expensive, and really fake, Egyptian artifacts. Now it's up to Amelia to clear his...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
Amelia and Emerson settle in for a quiet summer in England. When a night watchman mysteriously dies in the British Museum, Amelia is on the scene with her trusty parasol, ready to do battle with a malignant mummy and a ghost from...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
Sir Henry is striving to ensure no tomb has been overlooked by the previous expedition. Scarcely have the men started working when their spades uncover a series of steps cut into the rock. Then Sir Henry is found stiff and stark in his...
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Auteur:Griffiths, EllySommaire:When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson who thinks they may be the...
- Auteur:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Sommaire:
A new building site in Manhattan uncovers thirty-six bodies buried since the late 1800s. The developer and the mayor are trying to overrule any attempts to delay construction on the old crime scene. But FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
In 1907 Egypt, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate the mystery of an extraordinary papyrus "Book of the Dead" that may be connected to some recent murders.
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Auteur:Evans, Mary AnnaSommaire:While arranging a historic preservation project at a St. Augustine bed-and-breakfast, Faye Longchamp and her husband Joe Wolf Mantooth investigate the murder of an employee’s abusive boyfriend. Strangers is the sixth in Evans’ series of...
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