Amelia Peabody Books in Order

Newly wealthy spinster Amelia Peabody sails for Egypt, collects a disgraced young companion and clashes with irritable archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson as a mummy apparently stalks their desert camp and a very human conspiracy threatens lives and treasure.

Settled in Kent with their young son, Amelia and Emerson are coaxed back to Luxor to finish a tomb excavation clouded by talk of a curse, where missing archaeologists, nervous workmen and suspicious deaths point to a flesh‑and‑blood killer.

Banished to a desolate site at Mazghuna instead of glamorous pyramids, Amelia, Emerson and precocious Ramses stumble onto a murdered antiquities dealer, a missing mummy case and a ruthless smuggling ring that turns a dull season into a deadly investigation.

While excavating at Dahshur with eight‑year‑old Ramses in tow, the Emersons become entangled with a smooth master criminal, a troubled young Englishwoman and a series of abductions that pull Amelia from the pyramid trenches into Cairo’s darker corners.

Back in smoggy London for the summer, Amelia juggles difficult nieces and nephews with a supposed mummy’s curse at the British Museum, uncovering masquerades, blackmail and murder behind the figure of a prowling ancient priest.

Hired to trace a long‑vanished explorer, the Emersons push deep into the Sudan desert until their last camel dies and a hidden oasis civilization emerges, plunging them into dynastic feuds, captivity and the fate of a remarkable girl named Nefret.

Leaving Ramses and Nefret in England, Amelia and Emerson return alone to Egypt, where a vicious attack steals Emerson’s memory and a shadowy enemy uses tomb robberies and seductive allies in an effort to separate the couple for good.

A mysterious visitor tempts Emerson with rumors of a forgotten queen’s tomb, sending the family to a new site where forged papyri, rival excavators and a gifted young artist draw them into another struggle over who will control Egypt’s buried past.

In 1903 the Emersons return to the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of a modern corpse wrapped as a mummy, a dubious spiritualist and Ramses’s own secret maneuvers complicate Amelia’s efforts to expose a killer.

From a hijacked suffrage march in London to a dangerous season on the Nile, Amelia finds an old enemy orchestrating thefts and abductions, forcing the Emerson clan to face personal losses as they fight to keep priceless antiquities out of criminal hands.

As Egypt edges toward political upheaval, forged antiquities sold under David’s name pull the Emersons into a tangle of smuggling, scandal and nationalist intrigue where reputations, marriages and lives are all at risk.

With World War I raging, Cairo swarms with spies and saboteurs, and Ramses’s covert work collides with the Emersons’ Giza excavation, drawing Amelia into a perilous effort to protect the Suez Canal and everyone she loves.

During the 1915–1916 season, newly married Ramses and Nefret hope for a peaceful honeymoon on their dahabeah, but looted tombs, vengeful enemies and shadowy intelligence assignments keep the Emerson family squarely in danger’s path.

As the Great War grinds on, the Emersons are dispatched to a remote cliff site and then toward the front near Gaza, where Ramses’s undercover mission, missing artifacts and divided loyalties entwine archaeology with espionage and murder.

In the uneasy peace after the war, three generations of Emersons gather in Egypt, only to confront kidnappings, stolen treasure and lingering wartime grudges that turn a crowded family season into one of their most personal investigations.

A desperate messenger from the Lost Oasis pulls the Emersons back to the hidden kingdom they once helped save, where King Tarek’s rule is threatened and old alliances, rival claimants and forbidden love could destroy the desert sanctuary.

In 1922 a terrified widow thrusts a golden statue she blames for her husband’s death into Amelia’s keeping, drawing the Emersons into murder, imposture and clues that hint the figure may have come from a royal tomb still undiscovered.

As Howard Carter closes in on Tutankhamun’s tomb, the Emersons dig nearby, fending off political plots, nationalist conspirators and their own professional envy while a long‑running intelligence game collides with the find of the century.

In 1910, a controversial expedition to Palestine pulls Amelia and Emerson away from Egypt, and when Ramses disappears amid whispers of German intrigue, the family must juggle a modest dig, sectarian tensions and a race to bring him home alive.

Arriving in Cairo for the 1912 season, Amelia survives an intruder who dies at her feet with a knife in his back and a card marked Judas, then follows a trail to Amarna, the Nefertiti bust and a vendetta waged by monocled assassins.