Bloody Richard?In a remote English manor house, modern admirers of the much-maligned King Richard III?one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villains?are gathered for a grand weekend of dress-up and make-believe murder. But the fun ends...

The Curse of the Pharaohs von Peters, Elizabeth

Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret. Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to flee to...

Her niece's new, Egyptian, husband stands accused of forging priceless antiquities. Is he guilty, or merely the fall guy for some unscrupulous villain? Meanwhile, matters are complicated by the arrival of Amelia's detestable nephew who...

At last, the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have...

The Mummy Case Lib/E: An Amelia Peabody Mystery von Peters, Elizabeth

"The Serpent on the Crown" ist der siebzehnte Band der Amelia Peabody Serie von Elizabeth Peters. In diesem historischen Kriminalroman, der in den 1920er Jahren in Ägypten spielt, wird das Archäologen-Ehepaar Amelia Peabody und Radcliffe...

Can fear kill? There are those who believe so—but Amelia Peabody is skeptical. A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it was a...

"Der Fluch des Pharaonengrabes" von Elizabeth Peters ist ein spannender Kriminalroman, der im 19. Jahrhundert spielt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um die abenteuerlustige Archäologin Amelia Peabody, die zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann Emerson in...

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...

The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume...

Meet Egyptologist Amelia Peabody in the first mystery in the Victorian-era set, New York Times bestselling "sparkling series" (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review). "If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in...