Jacqueline Kirby · Book 1
The Seventh Sinner
- Published
- 1 January 1972
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780061999390
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Seventh Sinner is the novel that opens Elizabeth Peters's Jacqueline Kirby series, published in 1972. It's followed here by The Murders of Richard III. It's the natural place to begin the series, which ran to completion between 1972 and 1989 across 4 books.
Its place in Jacqueline Kirby
The Seventh Sinner is book 1 in the Jacqueline Kirby series. It is followed by The Murders of Richard III. See the full Jacqueline Kirby reading order.
Jacqueline Kirby is a sharp, unglamorous, chain-smoking American librarian -- later a bestselling romance novelist -- who keeps stumbling into murders wherever her career and curiosity take her. Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) built the series as something closer to a classic fair-play whodunit than her archaeological Amelia Peabody novels: closed casts, a confined setting, and a detective who solves things through close reading of people rather than physical action or romance…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061999390