Amelia Peabody [1-5] - Elizabeth Peters

Category: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Adventure Africa Amelia Peabody Egypt Sudan Victorian

Written by Elizabeth Peters
Read by Barbara Rosenblat
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson.

#1 Crocodile on the Sandbank

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella.
On her way, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes. Amelia promptly hires her fellow countrywoman as a companion and takes her to Cairo. Strange visitations, suspicious accidents, and a botched kidnapping convince Amelia that there is a plot afoot to harm Evelyn.

#2 The Curse of the Pharaohs

Toddler Ramses left in England. Husband Radcliffe Emerson’s old friend Lady Baskerville fears a curse killed her husband Sir Henry, and soon engages the attentions of American Cyrus. The will funds continued excavation. But a lady dressed in white floats, flutters, spreads fear, and more death.

#3 The Mummy Case

This third in the series brings the reader once more into Egypt and the shady world of black market antiquities. The winter excavation season has hardly yet begun when Amelia stumbles onto what looks suspiciously like a ring of thieves.

#4 Lion in the Valley

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her husband, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshur is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo.

#5 The Deeds of the Disturber

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. For no one doubts that the guard’s untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse.

Recorded Books, 2004