Elizabeth Peters

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses"—and in Mazghunah he demonstrates why.

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses.

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts hover silently over an inscrutable land....

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....

The job was six hundred miles away from home and that made it perfect. It didn't even matter that Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as...

A cryptic message slipped to Susan by a sinister soap box orator was the first puzzle....

Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather; an invitation that surprises and pleases her....

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating....

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....

Adventure and romance enter Vicky Bliss' life in the form of a black-and-white photograph of a woman covered from head to toe in gold jewels....

A distinguished British gentleman cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic....

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands....

From a New York Times bestselling author, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, now a wife and mother, returns to catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient tomb.

The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology....

Even on the joyous occasion of the marriage of their Egyptian "son" David to their beloved niece Lia, trouble finds Amelia and hunky hubby Emerson....

Dinah Van der Lyn hears the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut....

Amelia Peabody, archaeologist and woman extraordinaire, should have greeted the approaching excavation with transports of joy....

Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark: gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli....

Now Amelia must find a way to protect her family, and perhaps even her would-be nemesis, from the sinister forces....

An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes....