“Are you proposing, or what?” My face opened in a big, silly grin.
“According to family tradition, it’s the woman who does the proposing.”
“The tradition ends here.”
“Oh, hell.” He dropped to one knee next to the couch and clasped his hands over his heart. “Will you marry me?”
Mouth open, tongue lolling, Caesar looked adoringly at him.
“Not you,” John told him. “Vicky?”
It might not be the high point of my life, but it came close.
“I’ll think about it,” I said.
About the Author
ELIZABETH PETERS was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar Awards in 1998, and given the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in a historic farmhouse in western Maryland.
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ALSO BY ELIZABETH PETERS
THE VICKY BLISS SERIES
Borrower of the Night • Street of the Five Moons
Silhouette in Scarlet • Trojan Gold • Night Train to Memphis
THE AMELIA PEABODY SERIES
Crocodile on the Sandbank • The Curse of the Pharaohs
The Mummy Case •Lion in the Valley
The Deeds of the Disturber • The Last Camel Died at Noon
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog • The Hippopotamus Pool
Seeing a Large Cat • The Ape Who Guards the Balance
The Falcon at the Portal • He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Lord of the Silent • The Golden One
Children of the Storm • Guardian of the Horizon
The Serpent on the Crown • Tomb of the Golden Bird
and
Amelia Peabody’s Egypt (edited with Kristen Whitbread)
THE JACQUELINE KIRBY SERIES
The Seventh Sinner • The Murders of Richard III
Die for Love • Naked Once More
AND
The Jackal’s Head • The Camelot Caper
The Dead Sea Cipher • The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
Legend in Green Velvet • Devil-May-Care
Summer of the Dragon • The Love Talker
The Copenhagen Connection
Credits
Jacket design by Richard L. Aquan
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD KINGS. Copyright © 2008 by MPM Manor, Inc.
