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NEW YORK — Barbara Mertz, a best-selling mystery writer who wrote dozens of novels under two pen names, has died. She was 85. Mertz died Thursday morning at her home, in Frederick, Md., her daughter ...

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As did her writings of mystery, suspense and exploring Egypt, Barbara Mertz’s jewelry collection drew interest from near and far at auction earlier this year. The scholar and novelist penned 67 novels ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. The Egyptologist and wildly prolific writer Barbara Mertz died Thursday morning, her publisher tells NPR. She was 85.

NEW YORK (AP) - Barbara Mertz, a best-selling mystery writer who wrote dozens of novels under two pen names, has died. She was 85. Mertz died Thursday morning at her home, in Frederick, Md., her ...

Egyptologist and author Barbara Mertz, under the pen name Elizabeth Peters, has written many best-selling mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody, set in Egypt during the end of the ...