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  1. Aug 8, 2013 · Elizabeth Peters is a pen name of Barbara Mertz. She also wrote as Barbara Michaels as well as her own name. Born and brought up in Illinois, she earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Mertz was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar ...

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      Barbara Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an...

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  2. Peter, Elizabeth. Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. She was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, including the ...

  3. The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (1927–2013) under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The series is centered on the adventures of the unconventional female Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom the series is named, and an ...

  4. Elizabeth Peters was one of the pseudonyms of American author Barbara Mertz, which she used from 1968 until her death in 2013. She published a broad range of literature across a multitude of series including, but not limited to, her most famous work – the 19-book Amelia Peabody series.

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    This four-part series follows middle-aged librarian Jaqueline Kirby, better known as ‘Jake’ by her friends. At the start of the series, Jaqueline is an unwilling detective thrust into solving her first mystery on a study trip to Rome after a fellow student’s body is discovered in the Temple of Mithra. But as the series progresses, she embraces her ...

    This popular six-part series centers around the adventures of Doctor Victoria Bliss, a beautiful blonde art history professor from the US who becomes embroiled in an unfamiliar world of danger, deception, and international crime. Vicky specializes in medieval art, and at the start of the series, she heads to Germany to trace a lost sixteenth-centur...

    Author Barbara Mertz had a Ph.D. in Egyptology and incorporated much of her knowledge into her writings as Elizabeth Peters. But none more so than in this twenty-book series, the author’s most famous work. The series protagonist, Amelia Peabody, is an Egyptologist herself, yet living in the late nineteenth century, this scholarly woman was forced t...

    Alongside her three popular mystery series, Barbara Mertz also penned several standalone titles under her famous pseudonym, Elizabeth Peters. Here they are in the order they were published: 1. The Jackal’s Head (1968) 2. The Dead Sea Cipher (1970) 3. The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits (1971) 4. Legend in Green Velvet (1976) 5. Devil-May-Care (1977) ...

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  5. Aug 7, 2021 · The Amelia Peabody series is a set of historical mystery novels written by University of Chicago-trained Egyptologist Barbara Mertz under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The books follow an unusual female Egyptologist named Amelia Peabody Emerson as she carries on in a career and family life centered around excavations in Egypt (and time back home in England).

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  7. Amelia Peabody. Amelia Peabody Emerson is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of historical mystery novels written by author Elizabeth Peters (a pseudonym of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz, 1927–2013). Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and has one biological child, Walter "Ramses" Peabody Emerson.