The Mummy Case (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) (Library Edition)

Start with the first book, "Crocodile on the Sandbank" and you'll be hooked! gigi s mom I have all the Amelia Peabody novels in hard cover. I am in the process of re-reading them and, starting with the first in the series, "Crocodile On The Sandbank", I am downloading them onto my Kindle. Re-reading the series is as enjoyable now as it was many years ago.I love these books. The characters have become friends whose ad. Ryan Hoffman said but id have to say I enjoyed reading this mystery filled with suspense. This is my first time reading a book by Elizabeth Peters, but id have to say I enjoyed reading this mystery filled with suspense,,action, humor, and romance. Amelia Peabody Emerson, the heroine, and Her Husband, Radcliff "Emerson" Emerson, are both Archeologists in the later part of the nineteenth century and there focus is Egypti. Books Before Bed said Truly a series that holds its own, and Ramses is a hoot!. I honestly didn't think it was possible to love this series any more, but I do. Amelia and Emerson together are a fantastic mix, but add to that their son Ramses on the adventure and it just keeps getting better! This type of family would be an exhausting pleasure to know.While the mysteries themselves are only so-so, it is the ch

The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed 'Father of Curses.' Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah: countless mounds of rubble in the midst of nowhere. There's a mysterious scrap of papyrus and a missing mummy case to investigate, while she keeps at least one eye on their precocious son, Ramses, and his Egyptian cat. When a sinister Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail. But the digging turns truly dangerous when Amelia and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb--one that could become their grave.. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest--until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his Cairo shop

--Publishers WeeklyBetween Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it's Amelia--in wit and daring--a landslide. Elizabeth Peters' Mummy Case excels with Susan O'Malley's smooth narrative style, bringing aliveAmelia Peabody's probe of a Cairo antiques dealer's murder. --New York Times Book ReviewElizabeth Peters scores again with a riotously witty, tense, and cunningly constructed tale. --Publishers Weekly

ELIZABETH PETERS, whose New York Times best-selling novels are often set against historical backdrops, earned a Ph.D. She also writes best-selling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She lives in Frederick, Maryland.