A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ran...

The 18th Amelia Peabody mystery takes place in 1922, during one of the most famous archaeological expeditions in Egypt. Radcliffe Emerson believes that King Tutankhamon's tomb lies within the Valley of the Kings, but his efforts to se...

American librarian Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend of role-playing and scholarship centered on King Richard III. Jacqueline is amused at the groups eccentricities--until history begins to repeat...

It began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For the beautiful and brilliant Vicky Bliss, it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have b...

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...

The 18th Amelia Peabody mystery takes place in 1922, during one of the most famous archaeological expeditions in Egypt. Radcliffe Emerson believes that King Tutankhamon's tomb lies within the Valley of the Kings, but his efforts to se...

The Great War has ended at last. Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, no longer fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses, now free from his dangerous wartime obligations to Britis...

For the first time in more than a decade, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters brings Vicki Bliss back for one last investigation. But this time she'll be detecting in Amelia Peabody territory, searching for soluti...

In 1922, Amelia Peabody and her family are at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings when writer Magda Petherick arrives and gives Amelia's Egyptologist husband Radcliffe Emerson a small gold statue. The statue, Magda says, ...

[W]ill have particular appeal for fans....Peters's knowledge of ancient Egypt and the excavations and desecrations that accompanied early archaeological attempts in the region allow her to dress her melodrama with authentic trappings ...

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard s untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that t...