The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Series, 3)
The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Series, 3) book cover

The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense (Amelia Peabody Series, 3)

Mass Market Paperback – February 22, 2011

Price
$8.99
Publisher
Harper
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0061999208
Dimensions
4.19 x 0.94 x 7.5 inches
Weight
8 ounces

Description

About the Author Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen .

Features & Highlights

  • Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses"—and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in the barren area worthy of their interest—until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn—and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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I love this series

I have a love for everything involving Egypt, archeology, history, mystery and suspense. This series is absolutely perfect having being written by an actual Egyptologist!
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Happy to find re-issues.

Always loved these books. Now going to collect the ones I read from libraries and did not have at hand. I enjoy re-reading. Thanks for providing.
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Peters mystery

I like the characters and the mystery was very good.
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Great Fun Mysteries Series

Elizabeth Peters write great, laughable mysteries, that are fun to read.
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Great buy for the price

Good book
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Five Stars

She is one of my favorite authors.
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Five Stars

LOVE the whole series
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Five Stars

Wonderful reread.
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My new favorite author. I found out about Elizabeth Peters from ...

My new favorite author. I found out about Elizabeth Peters from reading a Joan Hess book! I should have known that Joan wouldn't steer us wrong!
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A Great Book

Another great Amelia Peabody book where she and her husband are excavating pyramids and burial grounds in Egypt. I love reading these books because Amelia is a very independent woman at a time when women were sort of delicate little flowers. She has a mind of her own, and her achaeologist husband, Emerson really appreciated it.