Title: Trojan gold
First published: 1987
Description: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand WordsBut the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead.  A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong.The picture itself is familiar:  a woman adorned in the gold of Troy.  Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann -- no, this picture is contemporary.  The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II.Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas.  All of them -- including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer...
Subjects: Fiction, Women art historians, Antiquities, Vicky Bliss (Fictitious character), Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Mystery fiction, Bliss, vicky (fictitious character), fiction, Germany, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
Places: Troy (Extinct city), Bavaria (Germany)