Crocodile on the Sandbank (#1)
Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia promptly takes Evelyn under her wing, insisting that the young lady accompany her to Egypt, where Amelia plans to indulge her passion for Egyptology. When Evelyn becomes the target of an aborted kidnapping and the focus of a series of suspicious accidents and mysterious visitations, Amelia becomes convinced of a plot to harm her young friend. Like any self-respecting sleuth, Amelia sets out to discover who is behind it all. (Synopsis by Amazon.com; Warner Books, 1975)
Curse of the Pharaohs (#2)
Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, heroic survivors of Crocodile on the Sandbank, are called back to Egypt by Lady Baskerville to complete the excavation of a recently discovered tomb. The dig had been left unfinished by her newly dead-and possibly murdered-husband, Lord Baskerville. The locals say this particular tomb is cursed. More and more of the native workers die in inexplicable accidents. Everyone-except Amelia and Radcliffe-holds the curse responsible. When Lord Baskerville's missing heir reveals himself to Amelia, she begins to piece together the mistery surrounding the tomb and Lord Baskerville's death. Racing to uncover the truth, she and Radcliffe find Lady Baskerville more concerned with the contents of the tomb than with catching her husband's killer. Is there a flesh and blood murderer loose, or is it The Curse of the Pharaohs? (Bookcover; Warner Books, 1981)
The Mummy Case (#3)
Emerson, Amelia Peabody's archaeologist husband, is on a dig where nothing seems worthy of interest, until a sinister murder suspect turns up at the site. Amelia can't resist following his trail, but danger mounts when she and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb that nearly becomes their grave. (Synopsis by Amazon.com; Warner Books, 1985)
Lion in the Valley (#4)
The digging season of 1895-96 promised to he a wonderful one: Amelia Peabody, her irascible and doting husband Emerson, and their hell-raising - and precocious - eight-year-old son Ramses were off to Egypt. And true to his word, Emerson was giving Amelia a pyramid (albeit a small one) of her own to excavate. The only shadow was the threat hurled by Amelia into the face of the Master Criminal, the man responsible for their near demise the last time they were in Egypt: "I will hunt you down and put an end to your nefarious activities".
The challenge is answered! As much as Sethos wants to deal in antiquities as much as he will go to any length to reach his ends, there is something the Master Criminal wants more than riches.
Amelia Peabody! (bookcover; Warner Books, 1987)
Deeds of the Disturber (#5)
When the body of a night 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 villains 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? (Bookcover; Warner Books, 1989)
The Last Camel Died at Noon (#6)
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been deliverd to Blacktower, awakening his hope that the couple was still alive. Neither Amelia nor Emerson believe the message is authentic, but the treasure map proves an irresistable temptation. Now, deep in Nubia's vast wasteland, they discover too late how much treachery is afoot (and on camelback)...and survival depends on Amelia's solving a mystery as old as ancient Egypt and as timeless as greed and revenge. (Bookcover; Warner Books, 1991)
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog (#7)
The delightful seventh adventure for popular heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amarna, where they first fell in love. When Emerson is kidnapped, Amelia must rescue her husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage. (Synopsis by Amazon.com; Warner Books, 1992)
The Hippopotamus Pool (#8)
A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband are intruiged, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the Peabodys sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped-and hampered-by their teenaged son, Ramses, and beautiful ward, Nefret. Before the sands of time shift very far, all will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. And the Hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type-anefarious, overweight art dealer who may become her next archenemy!(Bookcover; Warner Books, 1996)
Seeing a Large Cat (#9)
It is the best Amelia Peabody mystery in quite a while. The children are growing up, (although Amelia has trouble admitting that fact) and have become an integral part of the family. Adding the journal, perhaps written by Ramses, gave the characters more depth and allowed the reader to see them in a different light. With her uncanny knack for becoming embroiled in a season of mystery as well as archeological digging, Amelia has her hands full this season. An old friend's husband is being hoodwinked by a con-artist with a consience, a southern Colonel is embroiled in the mystery disappearance of his last wife, his spoiled belle of a daughter is out to find a husband, Ramses being first on her list, and, in pure Amelia and Emerson style, there is the requisite numbers of nefarious people trying to make this the last adventure. This is a must read for all lovers of suspense, villains, parody and humor. (Synopsis by cdonaho@livingston.net; Warner Books, 1997)
The Ape Who Guards the Balance (1998)
This one is not available as paperback yet, so I haven' read it personally. Thats what they say at the Amazon site:
The story begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the Book of the Dead. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved. (Synopsis Amazon.com; Avon Books, 1998)
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