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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 6
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English
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Archeologist Amelia and her family are sent to the Nubian desert to find the explorer Willoughby Forth.
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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 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 8
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English
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While excavating a previously undiscovered tomb, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody's son is kidnapped forcing her to use all of her detective skills to discover the identity of the kidnapper and location of her son.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
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 16
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English
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The return of the Emerson family to Luxor for the 1917 digging season is soon complicated by a ransacked royal tomb, a corpse, and a secret mission for Ramses to the beseiged city of Gaza.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 17
Language
English
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The Great War is finally over, but if Amelia Peabody thinks that this year's excavations will be uneventful, she has something else coming.
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Amelia Peabody volume 19
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English
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Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Archaeologist Amelia Peabody is working with her husband to uncover some of Egypt's ancient tombs, but soon she becomes involved in a modern day mystery that has strange attachments to the past.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
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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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Amelia Peabody volume 18
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English
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Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried desperately to persuade Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to relinquish their digging rights. But Emerson's trickery has backfired, and his insistent interest...
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Amelia Peabody volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
350 p. ; map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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The year is 1922, and Amelia Peabody, Emerson, Ramses, and their familiar company have returned to Egypt for another season of excavation. Before they have a chance to begin, however, they receive an unexpected visitor, flamboyant writer Magda Petherick, who spins an outrageous story about a cursed artifact and implores Emerson to exorcise its demon. Of course, no one falls for Petherick's elaborate yarn, but the beautiful statuette piques Egyptologist...
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Amelia Peabody volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend Tarek, prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
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English
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Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins. Arriving in Cairo for another thrilling excavation season, Amelia is relaxing in a well-earned bubble bath in her elegant hotel suite in Cairo when a man with a knife protruding from his back staggers into the bath chamber...
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