Amelia Peabody · Book 2
The Curse of the Pharaohs
- Published
- 1 January 1981
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780445406483
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Curse of the Pharaohs (1981), the second novel at 320 pages, continues Amelia and Emerson's marriage and excavations not long after Crocodile on the Sandbank introduced them. It followed a six-year gap in publication, part of Elizabeth Peters' slow early build of the series before it became a regular yearly production.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Curse of the Pharaohs is book 2 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Crocodile on the Sandbank. It is followed by The Mummy Case. 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 9781841191096
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780445406483