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When the body of a might watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. For no one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that tart-tongued Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody, whose remarkable talent for criminal investigation has frustrated villians from London to Cairo.
Now fresh from her daring exploits in exotic Egypt, Amelia, her sexy archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their catastrophically precocious son, Ramses, have returned to their native England just in time to get wrapped in the intrigue. It's a mystery worthy of Amelia's superior sleuthing, but can she elude the vile clutches of the real perpetrator long enough to uncover his identity...or is she destined to wind up as his next victim?
Now fresh from her daring exploits in exotic Egypt, Amelia, her sexy archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their catastrophically precocious son, Ramses, have returned to their native England just in time to get wrapped in the intrigue. It's a mystery worthy of Amelia's superior sleuthing, but can she elude the vile clutches of the real perpetrator long enough to uncover his identity...or is she destined to wind up as his next victim?
Carillion T. (mysterymama) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 50 more book reviews
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Even though this book takes place in England instead of Egypt, it is still well written and enjoyable to read.
Teri A H. (Nani) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 67 more book reviews
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As always, Elizabeth Peters keeps you guessing as to the villain and often surprises the reader in the end. Whew!! this book is another great one.
Meghan B. (WakingDream) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 61 more book reviews
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Peters (Barbara Michaels) regales thriller fans with the fifth tale about spunky Amelia Peabody, her ardent spouse Emerson and their small son Walter, "Ramses," a genius who sorely tries his parents. In the new story, the family is home in England from their archeological dig in Egypt and deep in another mystery. Determined Victorian feminist Peabody refuses to be intimidated by a phenomenon reported at the British Museum, where a sem priest is supposedly working a curse in revenge for the desecration of an ancient mummy. The priest's supernatural figure is momentarily glimpsed at the exhibit, before a murderer strikes. Disobeying Emerson, of course, Peabody lays her life on the line and unmasks the decidedly human villain. There are several intriguing new characters in this mystery, including nasty types who persecute Ramses, creating unexpectedly tender moments between mother and child. But the spotlight shines brightest on Peabody and Emerson, a couple evenly matched as hot-blooded lovers and professional partners. This is one of grandmaster Peters/Michaels best.
Sandra L. (GrannyBookworm) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 125 more book reviews
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This Amelia Peabody mystery was different, since part of it took place in England! More great fun with feisty Amelia and her charmingly disfunctional Victorian family.
Kathy A. (PinkyMac) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 15 more book reviews
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It feels like Elizabeth Peters created Amelia Peabody and her life and adventures just for me. These stories are real favorites!
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One of a great series. Highly recommend the series.
A museum guard is found dead in the shadow of a mummy in the British museum. He had a look of terror frozen on his face. Can fear kill? Very good book
Margaret H. (tothehilt) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 82 more book reviews
This was the most enjoyable of the Emersons' adventures yet, even though it is not set in Egypt, but London. The characters seem more fully developed and Amelia only gets better and better! I'll certainly be reading more.
Sherri R. (drawsit) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 17 more book reviews
Very good mystery!
Kate F. (MTKate) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 4 more book reviews
Amelia could make a mummy howl with frustration; it's no wonder that poor Emerson, cool and collected as he always claims to be, is destined to someday explode in an apopletic fit while talking logic to his hysterically funny helpmate. Ramses is the type of off-spring that parents admire but silently thank the gods that he doesn't belong to them. Be prepared to have your funny bone tickled.
Susan A. (twin119) reviewed The Deeds of the Disturber (Amelia Peabody, Bk 5) on + 3 more book reviews
This is the fifth in the series of about 19 Amelie Peabody mysteries. Amelia and her Egyptologist husband have arrived home from season" of digging in Egypt. In 1890's England, with their incorrigible young son Ramses, Peabody and Emerson become embroiled in a plot involving the British Museum, a disappearing mummy, and a gang of criminals dealing in "antiquities" from Egypt. This is not your usual mystery, as it is written in 1890-style language of the indominable Peabody in her journal. Aside from being fun mysteries, these books are romances and views of family life of the era, and are very, very funny.
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I tried. I really tried. I thought that if I read just one more book this author will get better. Nope, I couldn't get past the second chapter. Elizabeth Peters is chloroform in print, dry, hackneyed and tedious. So I took her other books I haven't read yet off my TBR stack and posted them here.
Can fear kill? There are those who believe so--but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a Nineteenth-Dynasty mummy's curse that caused the death of a night watchman in the British Museum. The corpse was found sprawled in the mummy's shadow, a look of terror frozen on the guard's face. What--or who--killed the unfortunate man is a mystery that seems too intriguingly delicious for Amelia to pass up, especially now that she, her dashing archaeologist husband, Emerson, and their precocious son, Ramses, are back on Britain's shores. But a contemporary curse can be as lethal as one centuries old--and the foggy London thoroughfares can be as treacherous as the narrow, twisting alleyways of Cairo after dark--when a perpetrator of evil deeds sets his murderous sights on his relentless pursuer...Amelia Peabody!
