Vicky Bliss · Book 1
The Camelot Caper
- Published
- 1 January 1969
- Pages
- 308
- ISBN-13
- 9780812512410
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Camelot Caper predates the Vicky Bliss novels, published in 1969 at 308 pages, introducing Sir John Smythe four years before he becomes Vicky's exasperating, undeniably charming partner-in-crime-solving. Vicky herself never appears in it, so it reads as a standalone Elizabeth Peters gothic adventure that can be read first, last, or skipped.
Its place in Vicky Bliss
The Camelot Caper is book 1 in the Vicky Bliss series. It is followed by Borrower of the Night. See the full Vicky Bliss reading order.
Vicky Bliss is a six-foot-tall American art historian working at a museum in Munich, whose genuine expertise in medieval and Renaissance art keeps landing her in the middle of forgery schemes, art theft, and murder across Europe. Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) gives Vicky a very different voice from Amelia Peabody: funnier about her own vanity, more openly modern, and paired for most of the series with the series' real scene-stealer, the art thief and con man John Smythe -- a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812512410