The Mummy Case
1985 • 327 pages
Ratings11
Average rating4.1
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Ratings11
Average rating4.1
Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.
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18 primary booksAmelia Peabody is a 18-book series with 18 primary works first released in 1975 with contributions by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess.
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Peabody and Emerson are hoping for a quiet dig season, but with their son Ramses along for the ride, nothing is going to be quiet.. ever!
As soon as they get to Cairo, they are embroiled in a new mystery and Amelia is sure that there is a master criminal afoot. After two murders and some mysterious disappearances of antiquities, even Emerson has to agree that something is going on.
I LOVE these books. Embroiled with history and a little mystery, these books will keep you chuckling as you go through the pages.
Peabody, Emerson and their precocious son Rames are off on an excavation site in Egypt. Rames is a handful always going off and getting into stuff. I think the child is 3 but he acts like 30. There is a mummy case of which Emerson has declared worthless but it is stolen anyway. Peabody thinks there is more to it and gets herself involved in trying to find out just what is going on there. There are clashing religious leaders as well. Are they involved in the thefts or just warring with each other.
Another delightful installment of this series.
In this book, because of Emerson's tardiness in booking a location, he and Peabody are doomed to excavate in a most unpromising area of Egypt, where they find nothing of interest. However, they find themselves under attack by two different people, operating independently, for reasons that are unknown until the end of the story.
As usual in this series, I have little interest in the overcomplex mystery that underlies the plot of the story, but I enjoy the dialogue and the thought processes of our intrepid heroine. Emerson and Peabody are amusing, and their precocious 7-year-old son Ramses is hilarious: I laughed out loud repeatedly while reading.
The amusement value is such that I might give the book 4 stars, but I deduct a star for the rather tedious mystery.
Ramses appeared only briefly in the preceding book; this is the first one in which he's present for the whole length of the story, and plays a significant part in the plot.
