The Mummy Case (An Amelia Peabody Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433267624 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 9 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Start with the first book, "Crocodile on the Sandbank" and you'll be hooked! 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 adventures have taken me to exotic locales and introduced me to fascinating people. I particularly love the descriptions of excavating in Egypt back in the 19th century.. 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 Egyptian ruins and pyramids. in "The Mummy Case" there plans were to excavate the pyramids at Dashoor, but a rival and the current director of the Department of Antiquities, M. De Morgan, has decided to do the job himself. Amelia and Emerson, are left to dig up a cemetery filled with roman bones, (Christian martyrs) . "Truly a series that holds its own, and Ramses is a hoot!" according to Books Before Bed. 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 characters and the setting that keep me coming back for more and thinking about this book while I am not reading it. Really and truly, this is the type of characterization that is such a treasure to find these days since it is in short supply. Ms. Peters really knows her stuff and I can easily imagine myself in t
--Publishers Weekly . --New York Times Book ReviewElizabeth Peters scores again with a riotously witty, tense, and cunningly constructed tale. 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. --Publishers WeeklyBetween Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it's Amelia--in wit and daring--a landslide
When a sinister Egyptian spotted at the crime scene turns up in Mazghunah, Amelia can't resist following his trail. 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. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest--until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his Cairo shop. But the digging turns truly dangerous when Amelia and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb--one that could become their grave.. 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
She also writes best-selling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. . ELIZABETH PETERS, whose New York Times best-selling novels are often set against historical backdrops, earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She lives in Frederick, Maryland