“A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key.”

Washington Post Book World

Elizabeth Peters is the author of twenty-seven acclaimed mysteries, all of which are still in print. They include The Hippopotamus Pool, Night Train to Memphis, and The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog. She has also written twenty-six novels of suspense under the New York Times bestselling pseudonym Barbara Michaels. Ms. Peters earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Chicago, and she has established a scholarship for minority women mystery writers. In 1990 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Hood College. She lives in Frederick, Maryland.