Elizabeth Peters
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Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
Elizabeth Peters
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 completely than ever before.
Journey through the bustling streets and markets of Cairo a hundred years ago. Surround yourself with the customs and color of a bygone time. Explore ancient tombs and temples and marvel…
He Shall Thunder in the Sky: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
There are dark storm clouds gathering above a land of mystery and antiquity. And no one will escape the fury of the tempest to come. He Shall Thunder In The Sky.
Egypt and her hoary secrets are no match for New York Times-bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters and her indomitable archaeologist sleuth Amelia Peabody. The sand-and-wind blown ambience of this strange and colorful world, the ancient enchantments and delicious menace are more vibrantly realized than ever in this thrilling new adventure that places the intrepid Amelia and her…
Elizabeth Peters
She may be a bestselling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby’s views on the publishing biz aren’t fit to print. In fact, she’s thinking of trading celebrity for serenity and a house far away from fiendish editors and demented fans when her agent whispers the only words that could ever make her stay: Naked in the Ice.
Seven years ago, this blockbuster skyrocketed Kathleen Darcy to instant fame. Now the author’s heirs and looking for a writer to pen the sequel. It’s an opportunity no novelist in her right mind would pass up, and there’s no doubting…
Elizabeth Peters
A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon an even more disturbing outrage concerns the intrepid clan of archaeologists: the freshly and savagely slain corpse of a thief defiling the ancient burial site.
Yet this is nothing compared with the lethal fate that threatens Ramses. Besieged by the British and defended by formidable Turkish and German…
The Ape Who Guards the Balance: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
The prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt seem fairly dull to Amelia Peabody. Despite her adored husband’s brilliant reputation in his field, his dashing-yet-less-than-diplomatic behavior has Professor Radcliffe Emerson ignominiously demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of the Kings—mere leftovers, really. All the Peabody Emersons profess stiff upper lips and intend to make the best of a bad situation, but this year the legendary land of the pharaohs will yield more than priceless artifacts for the Emerson expedition. For…
Seeing a Large Cat: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
“Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!” says an ominous message delivered by an unseen hand. The year is 1903, the place is Cairo, and with the new century, everything is changing for Amelia Peabody—except her affinity for danger.
Headed for an archaeological dig in the awesome Valley of the Kings, she hopes the desert will yield up its secrets. Instead it will produce a macabre puzzle of murder, passion, and cruel deceit. Besides the warning about the tomb—which only makes it more intriguing to Amelia and her sexy if irascible husband, Emerson—Amelia finds Egypt…
Night Train to Memphis: A Vicky Bliss Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, doesn’t know a thing about Egyptology. It’s her familiarity with larceny that brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she can’t refuse. They want her as an operative on a luxury Nile cruise because “certain information” has come to their attention—on a dead body—that a major heist of Egyptian antiquities is in the works. Will Vicky risk her life and all 5’11” of her shapely body in order to stop the thief? Vicky suspects that the man the authorities want is her occasional lover and…
The Snake, the Crocodile & the Dog: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
In her previous outing, The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia Peabody and her dashing husband, Emerson, discovered a fabulous lost oasis in the Nubian desert. Now, in the seventh mystery in the series, the Emerson-Peabodys are traveling up the Nile once again to encounter their most deadly adversary, the Master Criminal, who is back at his sinister best.
Amelia Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of the ancient fairytale “The Doomed Prince”. Later, she would wonder why no sense of foreboding struck her as she retold the…
The Last Camel Died at Noon: An Amelia Peabody Mystery
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia and her husband go to an archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride, both missing for 12 years. Surviving the rigours of the desert and the perfidy of their guides, they must strive to rescue the innocent—and themselves.
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