Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertz
Barbara Mertzwas an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952 she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. While she was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, in the 1960s she authored two books on ancient Egypt, both of which have remained in print ever since...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 September 1927
CountryUnited States of America
years body
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...
clever ideas scrutiny
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
husband heart moral
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody
cat quality likes
You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.
funny women want
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
female demand appearance
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
crush boredom persons
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
long doubt gold
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
marriage views stalemate
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
lying men crisis
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
cat approval
The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
children privacy feels
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
moving knowing effort
I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
party cat doors
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered Abdullah, who had been waiting for us on the verandah and who had, I supposed, been alarmed by Emerson's shouts and hurried to discover what disaster had prompted them. The cat got entangled in Abdullah's skirts and a brief interval of staggering (by Abdullah), scratching (by Horus) and swearing (by both parties) ensued before Horus freed himself and departed.