Night Train to Memphis

Name: Night Train to Memphis
Rating: 4.4 (985 reviews)

by Elizabeth Peters Book 5 in the Vicky Bliss Mysteries series.

First published 1994

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An intelligence agency recruits Vicky to join a luxury Nile cruise and help prevent a major theft of Egyptian antiquities. The officials also expect her to lead them to John Smythe, who has disappeared and is suspected of involvement in the planned crime.

On the cruise, Vicky finds Smythe travelling under another identity and apparently attached to another woman, while her inquisitive museum director unexpectedly joins the passengers. Murder, forged appearances and competing criminal plans force Vicky to determine which heist the authorities have actually uncovered and whether Smythe is the target, the thief or the only person who can keep her alive.