Elizabeth Peters

The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad...

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody...

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands....

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues...

Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure...

A dangerous practical joker recreates famous 15th-century murder methods. As the jokes become more and more macabre, one at last proves fatal....

A cryptic message slipped to Susan by a sinister soap box orator was the first puzzle....

Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark: gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli....

Frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever....

When she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her own life, the resourceful Ms. Kirby quickly goes back to work - as a sleuth....

The job was six hundred miles away from home and that made it perfect. It didn't even matter that Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as...

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra....

An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes....

While house-sitting, Ellie opens an antique book about the town's aristocracy and finds disturbing secrets that extend to her own family....

Dinah Van der Lyn hears the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut....

Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather; an invitation that surprises and pleases her....

Surely Aunt Ida couldn't really have meant it what she said: "I only hope I will be taken before my mind fails. Fairies in the woods, indeed!....

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of all her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple...