David C. reviewed on 4/20/2006 + 18 more book reviews

Babara Michaels is a wonderful writer even if she calls herself Elizabeth Peters.

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS but the photograph Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questons, and the answers to some of them are deadly. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof Vicky needs to know that something is very wrong.

The picture itself is familiar: A woman dressed in the gold of Troy. This isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann, though. The picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and everyone else knows, disappeared at the end of World War II.

And because they all know it, they all gather to renew the search. All of them - including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer....

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