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The Deeds of the Disturber: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense by Elizabeth Peters

March 29, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Replacing her beloved hot and dusty climes of Egypt for the fogs of London, intrepid adventurer and amateur archeologist Amelia Peabody finds herself dealing with a murder at the British Museum. Assisted (or more accurately interfered with) by her dashing husband Emerson, and their precocious son Ramses, Amelia must uncover the killer whilst battling supernatural curses, a pair of aristocrats with shady pasts and no real common sense, the appearance of a woman of negotiable virtue out of Emerson’s bachelor past and a potentially homicidal […]

Fun with Amelia Peabody

The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters

January 20, 2023 by Elizabeth Leave a Comment

Book 6 in the Amelia Peabody series sees the ever intrepid Amelia, husband Emerson and son Ramses dive into peril deep into the deserts of Sudan. The book follows the family of Victorian era British Egyptologists during a dig in which they attempt to find the whereabouts of two of Emerson’s friends who vanished into the desert 14 years previously, while attempting to find a rumored lost civilization. Of course Amelia et al find the lost civilization (or are they led to it?), which has […]

Death (and other Nonsense) on the Nile

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

December 8, 2022 by xoxoxoe Leave a Comment

My mom and I shared a love of Ancient Egypt, mythology and archaeology. She was a big fan of Elizabeth Peters mysteries, and I have had a few of the paperbacks from her mystery novel collection buried in my to-read piles for years. I finally decided to dig them out and give Peters a try. The first novel in the series, Crocodile on the Sandbank, introduces readers to her Victorian-era heroine, Amelia Peabody. Amelia is a no-nonsense, feisty woman who has also inherited an interest […]

His masculinity was only too apparent.

The Curse of the Pharoahs by Elizabeth Peters

January 29, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I feel like the schtick wore out on me for this one. I read the first one and I liked a lot about it, and I thought it had a lot of potential as a series. I keep chasing a dragon, and that is series like Tana French and Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling, or also writers like Megan Abbott, Sara Gran, and Gillian Flynn. I have the same issue with Stephen King, a misunderstanding that it’s not so much that I am into a specific genre, […]

Orientalism, Cultural Alienation, and Clones

November 14, 2017 by vel veeter 2 Comments

Crocodile on the Sandbank – 3/5 Stars If you haven’t read this book, it’s a little hard to fully understand how to categorize it. It’s very British-feeling, even though it’s written by an American author. It’s very British-loving to be sure. It reads almost like a mystery novel, but it’s not entirely a mystery. Instead, it’s most close to a few of the antecedents mentioned in the book itself. It styles itself after HR Haggard adventure tales, but in a less buxom/masculine kind of way. […]

This Mermaid Packs a Punch

August 25, 2017 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

The Sea King’s Daughter by Barbara Micheals (1975) – Occasionally, I have to cleanse my palate with something non-SF/Fantasy. The mother of my children got me hooked on Barbara Micheals (really Elizabeth Peters), and I’ve always enjoyed her novels. With this one, I thought maybe they’d gotten the authors mixed up. Elizabeth Peters wrote her adventure novels under her own name. She wrote her supernatural books under Barbara Michaels, but I was over halfway through this one before anything remotely magical happened. Ms. Peters was […]

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