Elizabeth Peters

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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

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....

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues...

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

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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

Surely Aunt Ida couldn't really have meant it what she said: "I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!....

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

New York Times best-selling Elizabeth Peters is at her suspenseful best in a richly woven tale of greed, treachery, and murder set against the tumultuous backdrop of wartime intrigue....

The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad...