Amelia Peabody · Book 5
The Deeds of the Disturber
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9780380731954
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Deeds of the Disturber (1988), the fifth entry at 352 pages, is set apart from the Emersons' usual Nile digs -- one of the few installments to unfold largely away from an active excavation. It continues the series' mix of marriage comedy, detective plotting and real Egyptological detail.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Deeds of the Disturber is book 5 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Lion in the Valley. It is followed by The Last Camel Died at Noon. 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 9781497699953
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780745171814
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786198863