Amelia Peabody · Book 4
Lion in the Valley
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9780061999215
- Type
- novel

About this book
Lion in the Valley (1986), the fourth novel at 310 pages, followed The Mummy Case the year before as Elizabeth Peters settled into a steadier publishing rhythm for the series. It keeps to the Emersons' Egyptian excavation seasons and Amelia's confidently unreliable first-person voice.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
Lion in the Valley is book 4 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Mummy Case. It is followed by The Deeds of the Disturber. See the full Amelia Peabody reading order.
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novels follow a formidable Victorian Egyptologist and amateur detective through four decades of archaeological digs, family drama, and murder along the Nile. Amelia Peabody Emerson — sharp-tongued, parasol-wielding, utterly unwilling to accept the limits Victorian and Edwardian society placed on women — meets her match and husband, the brilliant, foul-mouthed archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, in the first book, and the series follows their marriage, their excavations of real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812507645
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061999215