Ramses is 16 and he and David, who is around 18, have just finished a stay with their friend the sheik where they were celebrating making the journey into manhood.

There is an entertaining séance, some murders and the usual near death experience for Amelia.Īll good fun and I am looking forward to what happens next!įinally the children are old enough to make their own contribution to the series. Nefret and Ramses bicker and David just gets on with things. Emerson blusters and longs to get back to digging up tombs but ends up helping his wife instead. He was one of my favourite characters! There is a replacement in the wings but Bastet's shoes (or paws) prove hard to fill!Īs usual Amelia gets herself and everyone else involved in detective work. Sadly we have had to say goodbye to the cat Bastet which was obviously going to happen sometime since cats do not live forever. They are all heavily involved in the shenanigans in this story and with the aid of a separate manuscript we learn a lot more about them and what they get up to behind the scenes. This episode is set several years after the last book and Ramses, Nefret and David have all grown up considerably. Peters's fans will relish this latest adventure that explores mysteries of the heart as well as murder.More fun and games with the amazing Amelia and her entertaining family! In the process, she puts off observing that her son has grown to be a handsome young man, that his Egyptian friend, David, is a quiet potential rival and that few have overlooked the beauty and intelligence of her ward, Nefret. With characteristic aplomb, Amelia straightens everything out and finds the killer. Meanwhile, Ramses' former tutor asks for help with her husband, who has come under the influence of a seer and now believes that the spirit of an ancient Egyptian princess wants him to find her tomb. Unruffled, Dolly keeps trying to attach herself to Amelia's teenage son, Ramses, who is intrigued by a man who might have been the dead woman's lover and who definitely attacked him while he escorted Dolly in a Cairo public garden. Since the Colonel already believes that Dolly's life is in danger, all agree that the young woman needs protection.

Close examination of the corpse reveals that the woman was murdered.

Digging there, the group discovers the mummified body of the wife of English archeology patron Colonel Bellingham who was rumored to have disappeared five years earlier with a lover, leaving behind the Colonel and his then teenage daughter, Dolly. Her husband, Emerson, receives an anonymous note telling him to stay away from tomb Twenty A. It's 1903, and irrepressible archeologist Amelia Peabody, returning with her extended family in their charming ninth adventure (after The Hippopotamus Pool), is in Cairo, headed for the Valley of the Kings.

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