Helpful Score: 1
Continued adventures of Emerson, Amelia and their precocious son Ramses. Very good story
Helpful Score: 1
One of a great series. Highly recommend the series.
if you like elizabeth peters you'll enjoy this book
One on the earlier books in the series, very fun and sneakily educational.
Such twist and turns to the remarkable solution and Ramses as precocious as ever.
Very good mystery with much Archeology and Egyptology thrown in.
They first saw the mummy case carelessly propped against the Baroness' grand piano like some outre parlor ornament. It was a relatively insignificant mummy case, as mummy cases go...and no one suspected the mystery behind its enigmatic facade.
Amelia Peabody to the rescue!
Amelia Peabody to the rescue!
Amelia and Emerson head back to Egypt with their âcatastrophically precociousâ son Ramses, hoping to dig at the pyramids...but instead get a disappointing cemetery on the outskirts. Before they can even leave Cairo, an antiquities dealer is found hanging in his shop...everyone says suicide, but Peabody is sure it's murder and she of course will investigate. Soon curious thefts are happening in camp. Being humor-challenged, I found it amusing rather than laugh-out-loud funny, but I did enjoy the pokes at famous archaeologists of the day along with Peabody's take no prisoners style of investigation. Peabody and Emerson's marriage, and her takes on family life are pretty amusing too. I even liked Ramses, although I really hated the speech impediment Peters gave him. The mystery itself I thought was a little scattered, with more attention paid to the eccentric characters rather than the plot. There aren't too many humorous cozies I can read without wincing, so the fact I'm planning on reading the next is a point in its favor. Still in print, too, despite being originally published in the 80s.
Amelia and Emerson are at it again! Along with their very young, very precocious son, Ramses, they do a bit of archaeology and a lot of sleuthing to discover who killed an antiques dealer and why a mummy case went missing. Fun story to read! One of Elizabeth Peters best Amelia Peabody tales.
