by Elizabeth Peters
I really liked this story for one because it was set in Egypt and the exotic locale always makes the plot line just that much better to me. I really enjoyed the twist at the end involving the "Master Criminal." Peters makes all of her characters really likeable and I even like the Master Criminal no...
In this fourth entry in the Amelia Peabody series, the Emersons (with Ramses and Bastet, of course) return to Egypt, and this time they get to excavate at the pyramids of Dashoor. Amelia is in raptures, with a chance to have a pyramid of her very own to explore. But when an adversary is discovered m...
It is always interesting to return to a book I once loved. Sometimes the books are better than I remembered—as the same author's Curse of the Pharaohs proved to be. Sometimes they don't seem as good. Alas, that was the case here. The series is becoming more Rider Haggard-like, Amelia increasingly pr...
I found that I didn't care, seriously if the characters had all been suddenly killed I would have cheered their murderer on, I reckoned I would be better off abandoning it and heading for other reads, some day I may return but I doubt it. Amelia, her husband and son are back in Egypt for a dig. t...
Dashur.3* Crocodile on the Sandbank3* The Curse of the Pharoahs3* The Mummy Case2* Lion in the Valley3* Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient EgyptSummer 2013 Egyptian Encounters:Cleopatra (1963)3* The Mummy Curse2* Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra4* The Complete Valley of the Kings1* ...
Returning to Egypt to excavate the pyramids at Dahshoor, Amelia Peabody, Radcliffe Emerson, and their 8-year-old son Walter Peabody Emerson, a.k.a. Ramses the walking/talking encyclopedia. Right now Ramses is my favorite character. He is just so infuriatingly clever, logical and verbose. He can tal...
A mix bag for this one. On one hand I liked the archaeological sides. I liked Ramses then again, I always like Ramses. I can still see Emerson as a earlier reincarnation of Daniel Jackson. I still like Amelia. The setting was familiar since Lion in the Valley is an almost sequel to The Mummy Case. S...
I think I enjoyed this one a little more than the others because, surprisingly, the addition of a precocious child to the mix actually made the story more amusing.
Enjoyable.
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