peabody, amelia (fictitious character)

The Emersons return to the Valley of the Kings after the ban on archaeological activities is lifted and encounter a well-known author who possesses a golden likeness of a forgotten king which she claims is cursed.

Amelia returns to the Nile for the 1895 to 1896 season with a small and significant pyramid to excavate, but she is interrupted by the brilliant Master Criminal, a looter of both the living and the dead.

In the fall of 1915, archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody sets off with her family for Egypt and finds a much different Cairo than what was there the previous year, filled with soldiers and brazen tomb raiders--and the discovery of a fresh corpse in an ancient tomb sets Amelia onto a course of new sleuthing.

Spinster heiress Amelia Peabody, facing the prospect of traveling to Egypt alone after her companion is taken ill, rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes who has been abandoned in Rome by her lover, and forms an alliance that proves to be dangerous and beneficial to them both.