1. Borrower of the Night
Art historian Vicky Bliss discovers a clue suggesting that the lost final work of the German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider may survive in a castle near Rothenburg. Determined to find it, she enters into competition with an arrogant colleague and joins a house party whose members have…
2. Street of the Five Moons
A dead man is found carrying a near-perfect copy of the Charlemagne talisman and a note written in hieroglyphs. Vicky Bliss recognises that the workmanship could expose a sophisticated forgery operation and follows the trail from her museum in Munich to the antique shops and private…
3. Silhouette in Scarlet
A red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm and a message in Latin convince Vicky that John Smythe is summoning her into another art mystery. The first clue is a valuable fifth-century chalice, but the criminals pursuing it are using the object to reach a still…
4. Trojan Gold
Vicky receives a bloodstained envelope containing a modern photograph of a woman wearing the gold jewellery once displayed by Sophia Schliemann. The treasure excavated at Troy disappeared during the fall of Berlin, so the image suggests that at least part of the collection has survived in…
5. Night Train to Memphis
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,…
6. The Laughter of Dead Kings
The mummy of Tutankhamun is stolen from the Valley of the Kings, and suspicion immediately falls on John Smythe because of his history as an art thief. Although he insists that he has retired, Vicky cannot clear him without finding both the mummy and the group…