Elizabeth Peters

Barbara Mertz, born in 1927, in a small Illinois town, has become one of the country's best-loved mystery writers, writing under such names as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. Much like her famous heroine, Amelia Peabody, Mertz is a scholar of Egyptology, studying it at the University of Chicago and earning a PhD by the time she was 23.

Unfortunately, not too many people were hiring women in Egyptology in post-WWII America. She married, had children, and continued to research and write. In the late 60s, she finally found publishers who wanted to purchase her work and her writing career took off from there. She has written 29 gothic/romance suspense novels, 25 mystery/suspense novels, and several archaeology books. Her three main series feature Jacqueline Kirby, Vicky Bliss, and Amelia Peabody.

Mertz uses three pseudonyms to separate the type of writing she does: nonfiction archaeology is published as Barbara Metz, supernatural thrillers as Barbara Michaels, and historical mysteries as Elizabeth Peters (a name derived from her two children: Elizabeth and Peter).

Bibliography

Jacqueline Kirby	Vicky Bliss
The Seventh Sinner	Borrower of the Night
The Murders of Richard III	Street of the Five Moons
Die for Love	Silhouette in Scarlet
Naked Once More	Trojan Gold
	Night Train to Memphis
Amelia Peabody
Crocodile on the Sandbank	Written as Barbara Michaels
The Curse of the Pharaohs	The Master of Blacktower
The Mummy Case	Sons of the Wolf
Lion in the Valley	Ammie, Come Home
The Deeds of the Disturber	Prince of Darkness
The Last Camel Died at Noon	The Dark on the Other Side
The Snake, the Crocodile, and The Dog	The Crying Child
The Hippopotamus Pool	The Greygallows
Seeing a Large Cat	Witch
The Ape Who Guards the Balance	House of Many Shadows
The Falcon at the Portal	The Sea King's Daughter
Thunder in the Sky	Patriot's Dream
Lord of the Silent	Wings of the Falcon
The Golden One	Wait for What Will Come
Amelia Peabody's Egypt (with Kristen Whitbread)	The Walker in Shadows
Children of the Storm	The Wizard's Daughter
Guardian of the Horizon	Someone in the House
The Serpent on the Crown	Black Rainbow
Tomb of the Golden Bird	Here I Stay
	The Grey Beginning
Others	Be Buried in the Rain
The Jackal's Head	Shattered Silk
The Camelot Caper	Search the Shadows
The Dead Sea Cipher	Smoke and Mirrors
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits	Into the Darkness
Legend in Green Velvet	Vanish with a Rose
Devil May Care	Houses of Stone
Summer of the Dragon	Stitches in Time
The Love Talker	The Dancing Floor
The Copenhagen Connection	Other Worlds

--B. Redman