The Mummy Case: An Amelia Peabody Novel of Suspense

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Harper Collins, Mar 17, 2009 - Fiction - 416 pages

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.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
28
Section 4
58
Section 5
83
Section 6
108
Section 7
148
Section 8
182
Section 15
366
Section 16
367
Section 17
368
Section 18
369
Section 19
370
Section 20
371
Section 21
372
Section 22
373

Section 9
226
Section 10
270
Section 11
301
Section 12
316
Section 13
344
Section 14
365
Section 23
374
Section 24
375
Section 25
376
Section 26
377
Section 27
378
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About the author (2009)

Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.