Lion in the Valley (An Amelia Peabody Mystery)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1441735887 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 561 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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SouthCountryMom said I truly enjoy this series. I am now on book five of this series and have enjoyed them all to a "five-star" degree! The author, Elizabeth Peters, and her husband are/were Egyptologists and archaeologists. These books, written in the 70s, are set in the mid to late 1800s and early 1900s when archaeology was just beginning in Egypt. Ms. Peters has researched the culture . "Read this series! Really." according to cheryllynn. Elizabeth Peters was one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. She was formally trained in archaeology and so could be counted on to be accurate in her story weaving of Egypt in the late 1800's. She didn't need to be graphic to keep her readers spell bound. It seemed that no matter how many of her books I had already read, she con. "Interesting seeing all three Emersons contribute." according to ARG. The Emersons, including Ramses, have returned to Egypt this time excavating the pyramids they wanted last year- the one they had to be rescued from after the Master Criminal trapped them. Amelia is getting gifts from the Master Criminal while trying to right the course of some young people's lives. More exciting drama than usual. Interesting
She also writes best-selling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She lives in Maryland. ELIZABETH PETERS, (pseudonym for Barbara Mertz), whose New York Times best-selling novels are often set against historical backdrops, earned a Ph.D. She was named Grand Maste
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice and he's got her dead-on in his sights. Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death--all serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the ''Master Criminal,'' notorious looter of the living and the dead. Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing. But it is
--Philadelphia Enquirer . Bursting with surprises, a sheer delight. --Publishers WeeklyPeters really knows how to spin romance and adventure into a mystery