Got hooked on a 1970s mystery novel from a library sale bin for 50 cents

I was at the county library's annual book sale last Saturday in Harrisburg, and they had a whole table of books for 50 cents each. I grabbed one called "The Laughter of Dead Kings" by some author I never heard of, Elizabeth Peters. It's an old mystery set in Egypt with a quirky archaeologist protagonist, and I read the whole thing in two days. Now I'm hunting for more of her books at thrift stores, but nobody I talk to knows about this series at all. Has anyone else stumbled onto a hidden gem author this way?

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lilyfisher1mo ago

The Laughter of Dead Kings sounds wild, I bet the thrift store gold rush is real for that series.

sarahh811mo ago

My friend found three copies of that series at Goodwill last week, lucky @lilyfisher.