Amelia Peabody · Book 3
The Mummy Case
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780786198733
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Mummy Case (1985), the third entry at 320 pages, carries forward Amelia and Emerson's excavation seasons in the years before their son Ramses grows into a major character in his own right. Like the rest of the series, it blends genuinely researched Egyptology -- Peters held a PhD in the subject -- with classic mystery plotting.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
The Mummy Case is book 3 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows The Curse of the Pharaohs. It is followed by Lion in the Valley. 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 9780061171857
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061808579
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812532142