A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of a strangerthree chillers from the New York Timesbestselling ';grandmaster' of mystery (Publishers Weekly). A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two sisters take shelter from a storm in a shuttered old house at the end of a country road ... only to discover they're not alone. Settle in with this trio of short storiesavailable for the first time in a single volumefrom one of the most popular mystery writers of all time. With her customary sharp wit, historical expertise, and effortless knack for freezing the blood, Elizabeth Peters ';never fails to entertain' (The Plain Dealer).
