The Locked Tomb Mystery: and Other Stories

By: Elizabeth Peters

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Synopsis: 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.