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Murder by BurialStanley Casson (old green Penguin) is very good and is set on an amateur dig. Katherine Farrer The Cretan Counterfeit(1954, old green Penguin) has a background heavily linked to Crete/the Minoans. And there's an Ellis Peters set on a Roman site, which has an excellent chase scene at the end, but I can't remember the title at the moment.
Margaret wrote: "Murder by BurialStanley Casson (old green Penguin) is very good and is set on an amateur dig. Katherine Farrer The Cretan Counterfeit(1954, old green P..."Casson was a professional archaeologist/Greek historian and Farrer read Classics.
Those sound good will check them out and I've ordered the Cherwell one.
Alwynne wrote: "I've been meaning to try this one, set in a fictional Oxford women's college Death on the Cherwell"Me, too, it’s on my TBR list! One of us should nominate for July...
Jill wrote: "Seems like a good one to be put up for nomination some time"Oh, sorry, I just repeated Jill’s suggestion- what I get for not reading all comments...🤪
Margaret wrote: "Alwynne wrote: "Judy wrote: "Death on the Cherwell is a fun read as far as I remember, Alwynne - I think we did all the books by that author as group reads a while back. I will check the details wh..."Sounds like a good summer mystery!
Found these articles that have some good recommendations:https://crimereads.com/the-many-myste...
https://crimereads.com/the-educated-c...
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Going back to Ruth's question about mysteries involving archaeologists, I've found a list of those too:
https://murder-mayhem.com/archaeologi...
And an interesting article from the CrimeReads website which mentions a few:
https://crimereads.com/on-archaeology...