Lion in the Valley
Book 4 of Amelia Peabody - Pub
Language: English
Art Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective Detective and mystery stories; American Egypt Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Historical Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Historical Mystery & Detective - Series Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths Mystery fiction Peabody; Amelia (Fictitious character) Suspense Women Sleuths Women archaeologists Women detectives
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: Sep 30, 1999
Description:
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 marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses -- and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death -- have alerted Amelia to the likly 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 prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice...Amelia Peabody!