Elizabeth Peters

Listeners have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before the Great War. Now, at last, the silence is broken, and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and mysterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert.

When a night watchman mysteriously dies in front of the mummy Lady Henutmehit in the Egyptian room of the British Museum....

Each book in this bestselling series is greeted with cheers by the ever-growing number of fans who relish the adventures of the Emersons, a family of Victorian archaeologists. The shifting sands of intrigue and wry humor that fill these mysteries are always a delight....

Amelia Peabody, archaeologist and woman extraordinaire, should have greeted the approaching excavation with transports of joy....

Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging rights backfires—and his dream of unearthing the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon is dashed.

Against the romantic backdrop of Edwardian Egypt, the irresistible Amelia Peabody and her charmingly unconventional family prove themselves to be formidable foes of villainy....

The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology....

The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley - parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb....

Best-selling mystery author Elizabeth Peters has captured the hearts of thousands of readers with her spunky Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson....

Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will....

In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance....

As the 1921–22 season begins, the Emersons are enjoying a busy period of excavation in Egypt, when they hear a lurid description of a man’s mysterious death....

The indomitable Amelia Peabody and her husband, known to many as "the Father of Curses", are into archaeology and mischief again....

Amelia and Emerson leave the calm of Victorian England in search of an estranged father's son and a lost kingdom buried deep in Sudan....

Egyptologist and millionaire Amelia Peabody Emerson is back in Egypt hunting down tomb robbers, uncovering antiquities fraud, and meddling in the life of her son, Ramses....

The year is 1919, one year after WWI has ended. Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, finally feel they have a moment to rest. But just as the dust from the war begins to settle, a new wind kicks up, and their lives take a turn for the worse....

Even on the joyous occasion of the marriage of their Egyptian "son" David to their beloved niece Lia, trouble finds Amelia and hunky hubby Emerson....

It's 1910, and archaeologist Amelia Peabody heads for Palenstine....

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella.

Adventure and romance enter Vicky Bliss' life in the form of a black-and-white photograph of a woman covered from head to toe in gold jewels....