In “The Stolen Queen,” author Fiona Davis takes readers inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, following two women on a search for an artifact that vanishes on the night of the Met Gala.

The novel jumps between 1930s Egypt and 1970s New York, blending fiction with real-life discoveries and events.

In an interview on “Mornings On 1” Tuesday, Davis shared her approach to historical research, saying she tries to be as accurate as possible.

“It’s so much fun in terms of researching, say, the 1978 Met Gala,” she said. “You know, at the Watson Library at the Met, they have all the press releases and the exhibition photos, so I try and recreate it as faithfully as I can in the book, but then I use all that research as kind of a scaffolding, and then layer a fictional story and characters over it.”