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Cover art: David Mann
Blurb: "An ancient European castle... secret passages... a mystery several hundred years old... -and danger, make this Elizabeth Peters' best book!" -San Francisco Examiner
It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For Vicky Bliss - tall, beau-tiful, and brilliant - it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have been no contest.
The prize was a centuries-old shrine, carved by Tilman Riemenschneider, probably Germany's greatest master of the late Gothic. The place was the forbidding Schloss, Drachen-stein, where the stones were stained with ancient blood and the air reeked of evil.
The problem was that someone had target-ted Vicky, and the game was soon being played in deadly earnest....”