The Delphic Python Puzzle: A Woman Archaeologist and Friends Solve Murder -- US English Edition (The Cassandra Stratton Mysteries Book 1)
By P.C. James
Done with missing out because of her gender, can this clever archeologist make a brilliant discovery while staying one step ahead of a murderer?
England, 1953. Cassandra Stratton is tired of being passed over. Frustrated that her honors degree in archeology hasn’t gotten her out of the British Museum’s basement, the solitary young woman decides to use her inheritance to start her own dig. But her hopes of peaceful scholarship vanish after a rival professor demands entry to her intrigue-plagued Delphi site… and then his bludgeoned body turns up surrounded by artifacts.
Concerned when the local police dismiss the murder as simple theft, Cassandra delves deeper and discovers a series of puzzling images inside a network of tunnels. And while the tenacious twenty-seven-year-old has support from her former tutor, an ex-air force pilot, and a mongrel dog, her investigation hits trouble when a mining company threatens to shut down her work.
With sabotage around every corner, can she secure a rare treasure without losing her life?
The Delphic Python Puzzle is the intriguing first book in The Cassandra Stratton Mysteries historical cozy mystery series. If you like determined female leads, lovable canine sidekicks, and Golden Age backdrops, then you’ll adore P. C. James’s entertaining adventure.
Buy The Delphic Python Puzzle to excavate the truth today!
US English Edition
Done with missing out because of her gender, can this clever archeologist make a brilliant discovery while staying one step ahead of a murderer?
England, 1953. Cassandra Stratton is tired of being passed over. Frustrated that her honors degree in archeology hasn’t gotten her out of the British Museum’s basement, the solitary young woman decides to use her inheritance to start her own dig. But her hopes of peaceful scholarship vanish after a rival professor demands entry to her intrigue-plagued Delphi site… and then his bludgeoned body turns up surrounded by artifacts.
Concerned when the local police dismiss the murder as simple theft, Cassandra delves deeper and discovers a series of puzzling images inside a network of tunnels. And while the tenacious twenty-seven-year-old has support from her former tutor, an ex-air force pilot, and a mongrel dog, her investigation hits trouble when a mining company threatens to shut down her work.
With sabotage around every corner, can she secure a rare treasure without losing her life?
The Delphic Python Puzzle is the intriguing first book in The Cassandra Stratton Mysteries historical cozy mystery series. If you like determined female leads, lovable canine sidekicks, and Golden Age backdrops, then you’ll adore P. C. James’s entertaining adventure.
Buy The Delphic Python Puzzle to excavate the truth today!
US English Edition