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PLOT SUMMARIES
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Read the plot summaries below without fear - no vital clues (or endings) will be revealed. That's what the books are for!
- Borrower of the Night, 1973
A search for a missing sculpture leads to mystery and high adventure in Bavaria.
Vicky and Tony (her significant other) engage in a little friendly competition to solve locate a centuries-old work by Bavarian artist and sculptor Riemenschneider. They are not the only ones in search of the piece, however, and they find more danger and excitement than they bargained for at romantic old Schloss Falkenstein.
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- Street of the Five Moons, 1978
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Vicky goes to Rome to expose a group of art forgers.
What did it mean? The note with the heiroglyphs was found in the pocket of a man lying dead in an alley. The only other item of interest was a piece of jewelry, a reproduction of the Charlemagne talisman. It was good, so good that Vicky Bliss thought she was being shown the real jewel. The goldwork was done by a master; the jewels weren't glass but top-quality synthetic stones. What did it mean?
Vicky didn't know ... yet. But on the sunbathed streets and in the moonlit courtyards of Rome, she was going to find out - if the dangerously exciting young Englishman didn't get in her way...
-from the book jacket
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Silhouette in Scarlet, 1983
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Vicky visits the land of her ancestors: Scandinavia.
When American art historian Vicky Bliss receives a one-way plane ticket to Stockholm from her former lover, the stage is set for a rendezvouz with danger. Suddenly Vicky finds herself being courted by a dashing Viking, but she never suspects that her life may depend on finding a long-lost Nordic treasure . . . before it's too late.
-from Borders Online.
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Trojan Gold, 1987
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Vicky tracks down the lost gold of Troy.
A picture is worth a thousand words, but the photograph Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions, and the answers to some of them are deadly. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof Vicky needs to know that something is very wrong. The picture itself is familiar: a woman dressed in the gold of Troy. This isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann, though. The picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and everyone else knows, disappeared at the end of World War II. And because they all know it, they all gather to renew the search. All of them - including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer ...
-from the book jacket
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