Trojan gold cover

Trojan gold

by Elizabeth Peters

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand WordsBut the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong.The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann -- no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II.Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them -- including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer...

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?