In this series adventure, brilliant archaeologist Amelia Peabody and family return to Cairo just as World War I is breaking out. Amelia and her husband, Emerson, dive into another archeological excursion, during which they have their fair share of confrontation with Amelia's arch nemesis, Sethos. Meanwhile, her son, Ramses, is finding love in this ...
In 1922, Amelia Peabody and her family are at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings when writer Magda Petherick arrives and gives Amelia's Egyptologist husband Radcliffe Emerson a small gold statue. The statue, Magda says, bears a curse, a curse which she believes has already struck down her husband. While the Emersons attempt to ...
The author of the bestselling Amelia Peabody novels returns with the long-awaited final installment in her beloved contemporary series featuring art historian Vicky Bliss--back for the first time in more than a decade.
An expedition cursed by misfortune and death has alerted Egyptologist Amelia Peabody to the presence of her arch-enemy, the Master Criminal. And his is now a personal quest for the most valuable and elusive prize of all: vengeance on the meddling lady archaeologist with the parasol who has sworn to deliver him to justice...Amelia!
Found lying dead in an alley is a man with an interesting piece of jewelry in his pocket--a reproduction of the Charlemagne talisman. It is so authentic that Vicky Bliss thinks she's being shown the real jewel. But in the streets and courtyards of Rome, she's going to solve its mystery. By the author of Lion in the Valley.
The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian culture, history, and arcania, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the great lady's world more ...
Amelia Peabody and family are on a new expedition to the Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 1907 archaeological season. Soon, Amelia will need all her remarkable skills of detection and deduction to untangle a web woven of criminals and cults, stolen treasures and fallen women--all the while under the unblinking eye of a ruthless, ...
The first Amelia Peabody adventure, in which she comes into her inheritance and decides to see the world. Rescuing Evelyn Barton-Forbes on her way, she arrives in Egypt where they meet Radcliffe Emerson, an archaeologist who doesn't need help from women - or so he thinks.
The fifth book in the Amelia Peabody series. A night watchman is found dead in the Mummy Room of the British Museum, a look of horror frozen on his face. Before Amelia can respond, a pair of dissolute aristocrats with a shady past appear in her life, together with supernatural curses.
The third in the popular series charting the adventures of Amelia Peabody, this novel follows the Victorian lady sleuth to the "pyramids" of Mazghunah. On her arrival, it seems that the barren area can be of no interest, but a murder in Cairo soon persuades her otherwise.
In the latest in this series of historical mysteries, archaeologist Amelia Peabody sends her son Ramses and his wife, Nefret, to Luxor, where they are to investigate a rash of antiquities thefts.
Amelia Peabody and her family travel to Egypt for their annual dig. Her niece's Egyptian husband is accused of selling ancient artefacts that are actually exquisite fakes, and then the body of an American is found at the botton of the family's excavation shaft. It becomes clear that the land of the pharoahs harbours many secrets.
Graduate student D.J. Abbott leaped at the chance to stay at Hank Hunnicutt's ranch and earn $1,000 a month. What she had not expected was the house full of occult practitioners and the sudden disappearance of Hunnicutt. And when D.J. got too close to the truth, she found her own life in danger.
This 16th book in the Amelia Peabody series returns to people and places last seen in THE LAST CAMEL DIED AT NOON and occurs during 1907 and 1908, a period of time not previously covered by author Elizabeth Peters. A young man arrives at the Emersons' home in England and says he is the brother of their friend Tarek, prince of the secret desert ...
A New York Times Bestselling Author America's favorite archaeologists are close to unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for - the tomb of King Tut. But will kidnappers, lies, and an old family nemesis stand in the way of the ultimate prize?
This time Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be unwillingly drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years back. They survive the rigours of the desert, the death of their camels, and the perfidy of their guides, only to find ...
When Ramses Emerson is called to Gaza for an espionage mission, his mom, sleuthing Egyptologist Amelia, follows along, together with her husband Radcliffe and Ramses's wife Nefret. Soon, all of the Emersons have been captured by a diabolical Turkish official, and Peterson's latest Edwardian archaeological adventure is off to a rollicking start.
When literary scholar Karen Holloway happens upon a volume of verse dating from the early 19th century and signed only "Ismene", she becomes interested and starts her own investigation. She begins to decipher the manuscript, which she realizes is a memoir. But who was Ismene?
Archaeologists Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, their son Ramses, and ward Nefret are preparing to excavate a possible tombsite along the river Nile. The undertaking was prefaced by a strange encounter with a mysterious stranger who died of poisoning before their meeting was over. The Emersons attribute all of this to Signor Ricetti, kingpin ...
In their ninth case, Amelia and Emerson discover the corpse of the wife of a fellow archaeologist while excavating a tomb. Five years ago, she was believed to have run off with a lover, but examination of the body makes it clear that Colonel Bellingham's wife was murdered.
Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, is asked by an intelligence agency to join a luxury Nile cruise because information has come their way concerning the planned theft of some Egyptian antiquities. Vicky suspects that the villain concerned is a man she already knows.
Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody is not an idle character who sits at home and does nothing, especially when there are ancient archaeological sites to be discovered, so when a cry goes out for help, Amelia is only too happy to drop everything in England and travel to Egypt to be of assistance.
This latest chapter in the chronicles of archaeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson finds her and her kin at the end of World War I, with unrest in Egypt, her son engaged in a curious relationship with a mysterious woman, and powerful forces jeopardizing the lives of her family and friends.
"Naked in the Ice" is the book that propelled author Kathleen Darcy to fame. Now her estate is looking for a writer to pen the sequel. Jacqueline Kirby inherits Kathleen's pen, and with it, portions of Kathleen's life, including her ex-lover, her papers...and maybe the method of Kathleen's untimely death.
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