Russell's ebook Library
1 - Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [1]: Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery.Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Eve...
2 - The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [2]: 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 r...
3 - The Mummy Case
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [3]: The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as 'The Father of Curses'. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah ...
4 - Lion in the Valley
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [4]: 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 long-denied permission...
5 - The Deeds of the Disturber
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [5]: Can fear kill? There are those who believe so - but Amelia Peabody is skeptical.A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it wa...
6 - The Last Camel Died at Noon
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [6]: This time, Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be unwillingly drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years bac...
7 - The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [7]: In Amelia's seventh adventure, she and Emerson take passage on a boat travelling up the Nile, enjoying a second honeymoon while they search for Nefertiti's tomb.On the other hand, they might be heading towards murder.An exotic sla...
8 - The Hippopotamus Pool
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [8]: Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation.The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find - and an irresistible temptation for art th...
9 - Seeing a Large Cat
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [9]: "Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!" says an ominous message delivered by an unseen hand.The year is 1903, the place is Cairo, and with the new century, everything is changing for Amelia Peabody - except her affinity for danger. Headed...
10 - The Ape Who Guards the Balance
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [10]: Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of t...
11 - The Falcon at the Portal
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [11]: Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season - after the marriage of young Ramses' best friend David to Amelia's niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient ...
12 - He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [12]: It is 1914 and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. But this year a new menace hangs over the dig: rumblings of war abound in Europe while over in the East, Tur...
13 - Lord of the Silent
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [13]: Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectres of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.In the autumn of 1915, Cai...
14 - The Golden One
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [14]: Emerson is counting on a long season of excavation without distractions but this proves to be a forlorn hope. Yet again they unearth a dead body in a looted tomb - not a mummified one though, this one is only too fresh, and it le...
15 - Children of the Storm
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [15]: This is the fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan!At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another seas...
16 - Guardian of the Horizon
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [16]: Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret.Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to fl...
17 - The Serpent on the Crown
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [17]: A unique treasure obtained by unscrupulous means, the small gold statuette of an unidentified Egyptian king is a priceless relic from a bygone era. But more than history surrounds the remarkable artifact - for it is said that ear...
18 - Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [18]: 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 for...
19 - A River in the Sky
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [19]: August 1910. Banned from the Valley of the Kings by the Antiquities Service, Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, are relaxing at home in Kent, enjoying the tranquil beauty of summer. But adventure soon beckons when they are ...
20 - The Painted Queen
Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess
Amelia Peabody [20]: 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 assassi...
