By: Elizabeth Peters
Genre: Mystery Woman Sleuth | Mystery Historical
Avon
September 1, 1999
On Sale: September 1, 1999
Featuring: Amelia Peabody; Radcliffe Emerson
370 pages
ISBN: 0380731193
EAN: 9780380731190
Kindle: B00OGV0LKI
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Book Summary
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo.
The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses - and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death - have alerted Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prize of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice... Amelia Peabody!
