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Book Review, © Copyright 1997, Jim Loy
These books are adventure/mystery stories that take place in Egypt, in the late 1800's. Elizabeth Peters has a Ph.D. in Egyptology, and she is the best-selling author who writes under the name of Barbara Michaels. She has written many adventure/mystery stories which involve archeology. This particular series of books is about Amelia Peabody Emerson, the wife of the world's best Egyptologist, Radcliff Emerson. Peabody, as she is called by her husband, gets in serious danger wherever she goes. She is chased by tomb-robbers (including a master-criminal), is imprisoned inside a pyramid, and chases tomb-robbers (and the master-criminal). It is often amusing and exciting.
Note: Elizabeth Peters also wrote The Jackal's Head and Night Train to Memphis, two mysteries which involves Egyptology, but not Amelia Peabody. She is also editor of Amelia Peabody's Egypt, which is a delightful book about Egyptology in Amelia Peabody's era and before, with a small amount of fiction (about the Emerson family) thrown in.
To order any of these books, from Amazon.com, click on the title below (goes directly to that book):
Also Amelia Peabody's Egypt (hardback) or The Jackal's Head or Night Train to Memphis.