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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 8
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The 19th Century archeologists, Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, arrive in Egypt with children to explore the site of Queen Tetisheri's tomb in Thebes. All goes well until their son, Ramses, is kidnaped.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
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With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peaboby-Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cario for their annual vacation. But in the autumn of 1915 the exotic city is not what it used to be. It has been transformed into an armed camp teeming with enemy agents and bold tomb robbers. No place in Egypt is safe. Even remote Luxor provides no guarantee of safety, especially...
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After eluding a kidnapper in London, an unperturbed Amelia Peabody accompanies her unconventional family to Cairo once more—only to be ensnared almost immediately in a web of stolen treasures and bloodthirsty cults. Villainy is running rampant in Egypt this 1907 archaeological season, but the members of the intrepid Peabody-Emerson clan have already proven themselves to be formidable adversaries. However, when a mint-condition papyrus of
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Vicky Bliss mysteries volume 4
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"A picture is worth a thousand words but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary -- which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War Two. And if she needed further proof that something was...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
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It is 1911, and Amelia Peabody is in Egypt for the annual dig and to celebrate a wedding - but no sooner is it over than the groom is accused of selling fake Egyptian artefacts, a dead American is found at the bottom of a shaft, and a mysterious child sparks a crisis.
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