Susan A. (twin119) reviewed on 11/7/2010 + 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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