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"* 'I can't wait for the next Peabody story... I really do think [Elizabeth Peters'] books are great entertainment.' Angela Ripon * 'A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key.' Washington Post Book World * 'Think Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones... accomplished entertainment.' Guardian"
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Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade. When Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after discovering what may have been an undisturbed royal tomb in Luxor, she appeals to eminent archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia to take over the excavation. Amid rumours of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig, the intrepid couple proceeds to Egypt, where they begin to suspect that Sir Henry did not die a natural death, and they are confident that the accidents that plague the dig are caused by a sinister human element, not a pharoah's curse.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Victorianesque language slips from time to time, but this is grand rollicking adventure, full of in-jokes for those with a knowledge of Egyptology or of the history and literature of the period it deals with.
The blurb has got one of these wrong: it's not Sir Henry Baskerville who has died, but Lord Baskerville "of the Norfolk Baskervilles, not the Devonshire branch of the family" - that is, a distant cousin of Doyle's Sir Henry. He's not the only Sherlock Holmes character to be referenced - there's a Von Bork here, and a Charles Milverton, both very different people from their villainous namesakes but a joy for a Holmes fan to read about.
Anyway, these people inhabit a gloriously silly plot which has been uncharitably but not altogether unjustifiably compared to a Victorian-era Scooby Doo, with fake ghosts, a mummy's curse and a long-lost heir. Melodramatic? Yes. Implausible? Certainly. Tremendous fun? Undoubtedly.
The blurb has got one of these wrong: it's not Sir Henry Baskerville who has died, but Lord Baskerville "of the Norfolk Baskervilles, not the Devonshire branch of the family" - that is, a distant cousin of Doyle's Sir Henry. He's not the only Sherlock Holmes character to be referenced - there's a Von Bork here, and a Charles Milverton, both very different people from their villainous namesakes but a joy for a Holmes fan to read about.
Anyway, these people inhabit a gloriously silly plot which has been uncharitably but not altogether unjustifiably compared to a Victorian-era Scooby Doo, with fake ghosts, a mummy's curse and a long-lost heir. Melodramatic? Yes. Implausible? Certainly. Tremendous fun? Undoubtedly.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Married to Emerson (very happily!) and with a young baby, Amelia thinks her excavating days are over. But when the widow of a dead archaeologist pleads with Emerson to come out to Egypt and investigate the 'curse' which is killing off the entire expedition team, Amelia is quick to leave the baby with Walter and Evelyn and get herself and her husband out of London.
Humourous pastiche, this will remind you of Agatha Christie at her most camp, but the wit of Amelia and the fascinating chemistry between her and Emerson is a winning formula. Great escapist read.
Humourous pastiche, this will remind you of Agatha Christie at her most camp, but the wit of Amelia and the fascinating chemistry between her and Emerson is a winning formula. Great escapist read.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Peters brings back Amelia & Emerson in the second volume of their adventures...again we are privileged to watch the Emersons in action...they abandon domesticity and young "Ramses" to rush to Egypt to help a damsel in distress...explain numerous unexplained deaths...debunk "the curse of the pharaohs"...and have a wonderful time doing it!!Amelia's passion for antiquities and pyramids as well as excavations puts us in the midst of a bizarre as well as entertaining cast of characters including a bluff rich american,a lord in disguise,a german with a formidable moustache,a veiled "woman in white" and much much more...as ever tombs and treasures muddy the waters...but Amelia's "detectival" instincts and ever-present parasol lead the way through an amazing maze of eygptology and good old human greed...Peters gift for creating lively multi-faceted characters is as ever entertaining as well as compulsive...of course Peters ability to follow the Emersons and their fascinating lives through Victorian England and Egypt including a pithy political history of the times is what makes this series of books so unlike run of the mill mysteries...for true fans following the chronological series is a MUST !!!!!!
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Great fun
Amelia Peabody is always good for a giggle. An eccentric, early feminist archaeologist who thinks she's also Sherlock Holmes! Read more
Published 8 months ago by Deacon Jane
Egyptology as it should be!
I have read the other reviews and you will have no problem guessing which ones I agree with. I love this book, it is one of my favourites in the series. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2009 by lynne clifford
Back to the Valley of Tombs
This book finds our heroine Amelia Peabody married to the archeologist she met in Crocodile on the Sandbank. Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2008 by Marion Marchetto
Disappointing
While I loved - LOVED - the first book in this series, I'm afraid that this one nowhere near lived up to it.
I think its main problem was sequelitis. Read more
I think its main problem was sequelitis. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2007 by Ms. MacNeill
Archaeology in Ancient Egypt
Elizabeth Peters was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Read more
Published on 16 Jun 2007 by J. Chippindale
The Emersons are perfectly splendid!
This is the second in the peabody series and I loved it. Its so lovely to see the character of amelia develop after all she hasnt described herself to us as much as she has... Read more
Published on 14 April 2007 by Patricia A. Mclaughlin
A good read.
I'm not a reader of murder mystery books usually, but I found this one captivating due to its very strong and real characters - along with the immense humour and wit in which it is... Read more
Published on 31 May 2006 by FAMOUS NAME
Fabulous!
After reading "Crocodile on the Sandbank" I was concerned that I wouldn't enjoy this as much, but it's great fun. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2002
Praise for Amelia Peabody! Indiana Jones, watch out!
Elizabeth Peters wrote this amazing novel with her usual genius and bubbling enthusiasm. My tremendous acclaiming to her as a master crime fictionist is unduly deserved. Read more
Published on 8 July 1999
Fantastic!
This is the first Elizabeth Peters book I have ever read. I found her characters to be very funny and well written. MS. Read more
Published on 1 July 1999
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