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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
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English
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Spinster heiress Amelia Peabody, facing the prospect of traveling to Egypt alone after her companion is taken ill, rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes who has been abandoned in Rome by her lover, and forms an alliance that proves to be dangerous and beneficial to them both.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 5
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English
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Amelia is caught up in an intrigue surrounding the dignified British Museum. Murder, a lady from the past of dubious reputation, supernatural curses, and a homicidal lunatic are part of the mystery.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Amelia Peabody and her husband's lives are threatened when they embark for the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
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English
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The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "Father of Curses." Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the "pyramids" of Mazghunah: countless mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest—until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his Cairo shop.
When a sinister Egyptian spotted
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 9
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English
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Egyptologist-detective Amelia Peabody, participating in an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings in 1903, decides to ignore an anonymous message warning her to stay away from tomb Twenty-A--a decision she can only hope she lives to regret.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
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English
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Amelia returns to the Nile for the 1895-96 season. She has a small pyramid to excavate but is interrupted by a brilliant Master Criminal.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 2
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English
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Amelia Emerson and her archaeologist husband leave England to assume leadership of an expedition in Egypt struck with tragedy and mystery.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
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English
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Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch-nemesis Sethos is at work.
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 6
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English
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Who stole one of Egypt's most priceless treasures? That is the question that haunts the authorities after a distinguished British gentleman with an upper-crust accent cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic. But the Egyptian authorities and Interpol believe they know the identity of the culprit. The brazen crime bears all the earmarks of the work of one "Sir John Smythe,"...
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