Author Description

best-selling Mystery Author Elizabeth Peters Has Captured The Hearts Of Thousands Of Readers With Her Spunky Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson. In Seeing A Large Cat, Amelia Must Ensnare A Modern-day Killer, A Bogus Spiritualist, And A Predatory Debutante In The Awesome Valley Of The Kings. Someone Is Sending Ominous Messages: Stay Away From Tomb Twenty-a! Intrigued, Parasol-wielding Amelia Won't Rest Until She Finds The Forbidden Burial Site. But When The Excavation Yields An Unusual Mummy, She Suddenly Must Protect Both Her Family And The Macabre Discovery. Her Ph.d. In Egyptology Enables Elizabeth Peters To Portray A Lavishly Detailed Turn-of-the-century Egypt In Her Lively Tale Of Crisp Wit And Shivery Suspense. The Spirited Cast Including Amelia, Her Eccentric Family, And An Array Of International Characters Bursts Into Life With Barbara Rosenblat's Brilliant Narration. publishers Weekly it's 1903, And Irrepressible Archeologist Amelia Peabody, Returning With Her Extended Family In Their Charming Ninth Adventure (after the Hippopotamus Pool), Is In Cairo, Headed For The Valley Of The Kings. Her Husband, Emerson, Receives An Anonymous Note Telling Him To Stay Away From Tomb Twenty A. Digging There, The Group Discovers The Mummified Body Of The Wife Of English Archeology Patron Colonel Bellingham Who Was Rumored To Have Disappeared Five Years Earlier With A Lover, Leaving Behind The Colonel And His Then Teenage Daughter, Dolly. Close Examination Of The Corpse Reveals That The Woman Was Murdered. Since The Colonel Already Believes That Dolly's Life Is In Danger, All Agree That The Young Woman Needs Protection. Unruffled, Dolly Keeps Trying To Attach Herself To Amelia's Teenage Son, Ramses, Who Is Intrigued By A Man Who Might Have Been The Dead Woman's Lover And Who Definitely Attacked Him While He Escorted Dolly In A Cairo Public Garden. Meanwhile, Ramses' Former Tutor Asks For Help With Her Husband, Who Has Come Under T