Elizabeth Peters

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses"—and in Mazghunah he demonstrates why.

The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad...

From a New York Times bestselling author, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, now a wife and mother, returns to catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient tomb.

Amelia and Emerson leave the calm of Victorian England in search of an estranged father's son and a lost kingdom buried deep in Sudan....

Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts hover silently over an inscrutable land....

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands....

While on an all-expenses-paid cruise down the Nile, Vicky takes on a new case involving a plot to rob the Egyptian museum....

The Great War has ended at last. Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, the distinguished Egyptologist, no longer fear for the life of their daring son, Ramses....

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues...

The job was six hundred miles away from home and that made it perfect. It didn't even matter that Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as...

The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "Father of Curses"....

Adventure and romance enter Vicky Bliss' life in the form of a black-and-white photograph of a woman covered from head to toe in gold jewels....

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody...

The Charlemagne talisman, with its gold filigree volutes and enormous azure-blue sapphire, has caught Vicky Bliss' attention....

An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes....

Even on the joyous occasion of the marriage of their Egyptian "son" David to their beloved niece Lia, trouble finds Amelia and hunky hubby Emerson....

The indomitable Amelia Peabody and her husband, known to many as "the Father of Curses", are into archaeology and mischief again....

A distinguished British gentleman cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic....

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating....

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella.