The Camelot Caper

Mainly of interest for the backstory of "Sir John Smythe", one-half of the protagonist duo of the Vicky Bliss tales, which it appears I am doomed to read all of this week. O the suffering. I should probably look up copyright dates, and assure myself that the chronological order is also the order of c......more

I love many of Elizabeth Peters’s archaeological mysteries. “The Camelot Caper” was suspenseful at first; hinting at danger that did not pan out. No aspect of the novel did! It descended into such silliness, then stupidity, that I went from four-star appreciation, to disgust. How do any part of the......more

Vicky isn’t in this book. This is her friend, Jessica. Her estranged grandfather asks her to fly across the ocean to bring him a ring her father took when he left. The problem begins when she lands in jolly old England. Bad guys want the ring and are fine using violence to get it. Cute mystery and......more

This book could have been a lot of fun, if Peters had only put in a little effort. It's trying to be the Northanger Abbey of Female Gothic novels (like those of Mary Stewart), but it's just not trying very hard. The plot is fine for a book of this type, except for a long section in the middle where......more

Elizabeth Peters' The Camelot Caper was a re-read. It's not one of my favorites of hers, though it does have three distinctions that make it stand out in my mind. One, it features the only appearance of John Tregarth outside the Vicky Bliss novels, which pulls it into the same continuity as that ser......more