BooksBarbecue
Back The Painted Queen Save as PDF
Chapters (28)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. ForewordEgyptologists Together: Amelia Peabody, Elizabeth Peters, and Barbara Mertz
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. One
  7. Two
  8. Three
  9. Four
  10. Five
  11. Six
  12. Seven
  13. Eight
  14. Nine
  15. Ten
  16. Eleven
  17. Twelve
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. About the Authors
  27. Books by Elizabeth Peters
  28. About the Publisher

After this, it was simply a matter of tying his hands and feet with the cords from my belt of tools. I then seated myself on a rock and awaited the advent of my rescuers.

There was a teaspoon or two of whiskey left in the flask . . .

About the Authors

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.

Joan Hess is the author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks Mysteries, formally known as the Maggody Mysteries. She is a winner of the American Mystery Award and the Agatha Award, for which she has been nominated five times, and is a member of Sisters in Crime and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com.

Books by Elizabeth Peters

The Amelia Peabody Series

  • Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • The Curse of the Pharaohs
  • The Mummy Case
  • Lion in the Valley
  • The Deeds of the Disturber
  • The Last Camel Died at Noon
  • The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
  • The Hippopotamus Pool
  • Seeing a Large Cat
  • The Ape Who Guards the Balance
  • The Falcon at the Portal
  • He Shall Thunder in the Sky
  • Lord of the Silent
  • The Golden One
  • Children of the Storm
  • Guardian of the Horizon
  • The Serpent on the Crown
  • Tomb of the Golden Bird
  • A River in the Sky
  • The Painted Queen
  • and
  • Amelia Peabody’s Egypt (edited with Kristen Whitbread)

The Vicky Bliss Series

  • Borrower of the Night
  • Street of the Five Moons
  • Silhouette in Scarlet
  • Trojan Gold
  • Night Train to Memphis
  • The Laughter of Dead Kings

The Jacqueline Kirby Series

  • The Seventh Sinner
  • The Murders of Richard III
  • Die for Love
  • Naked Once More

and

  • The Jackal’s Head
  • The Camelot Caper
  • The Dead Sea Cipher
  • The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
  • Legend in Green Velvet
  • Devil May Care
  • Summer of the Dragon
  • The Love Talker
  • The Copenhagen Connection

Books by Joan Hess

The Claire Malloy Series

  • Strangled Prose
  • The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
  • Dear Miss Demeanor
  • A Really Cute Corpse
  • A Diet to Die For
  • Roll Over and Play Dead
  • Death by the Light of the Moon
  • Poisoned Pins
  • Tickled to Death
  • Busy Bodies
  • Closely Akin to Murder
  • A Holly, Jolly Murder
  • A Conventional Corpse
  • Out on a Limb
  • The Goodbye Body
  • Damsels in Distress
  • Mummy Dearest
  • Deader Homes and Gardens
  • Murder as a Second Language
  • Pride v. Prejudice