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Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Congdon & Weed
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Avon Twilight
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more-only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of the Book...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is back for more exotic suspense when a night watchman at the British Museum is found dead in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case. Skeptical of an ancient curse, Amelia is hot on the trail of the real killer. HC: Atheneum.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody and her archeologist family. But there is a great evil in the wind sweeping through Cairo in the presence of a notorious looter of the living and the dead.
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been “ruined” and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her rascally lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Best-selling mystery author Elizabeth Peters has captured the hearts of thousands of readers with her spunky Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson. In Seeing a Large Cat, Amelia must ensnare a modern-day killer, a bogus spiritualist, and a predatory debutante in the awesome Valley of the Kings. Someone is sending ominous messages: "Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!" Intrigued, parasol-wielding Amelia won't rest until she finds the forbidden burial...
Author
Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Amelia hopes to rekindle some of the old fire with Emerson in a return journey to Amarna, Egypt where they met 13 years before. But her plan is foiled when Emerson emerges from a night-time ambush typically furious and with absolutely no memory of who Amelia is!
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