Elizabeth Peters Books in Order

This collection brings together four short mysteries, including an Amelia Peabody and Emerson case, ranging from a writer drawn into an actual murder to a sealed tomb puzzle, an eerie country house and a playful Sherlock Holmes tribute.

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.

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.

When King Tutankhamun’s mummy vanishes from its tomb and Sir John is the prime suspect, Vicky Bliss, Professor Schmidt and friends race across modern Egypt to recover the body, clear John’s name and untangle a plot that links politics, antiquities and family.

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 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.

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 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 richly illustrated companion to the Amelia Peabody novels, this compendium gathers essays, photographs, maps and in‑character pieces that explore real Egyptian history, Victorian travel and the backstories of the Emerson family and their associates.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vicky Bliss boards a luxury Nile cruise as an undercover expert tasked with stopping a Cairo Museum heist, but the presence of her charmingly untrustworthy lover Sir John Smythe, his new “bride” and layers of double‑crosses turn the voyage into a chaotic, romantic chase.

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.

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.

Jacqueline Kirby wins the contest to write a sequel to a vanished author’s blockbuster novel and moves to the writer’s Appalachian hometown, where anonymous threats, staged accidents and old resentments suggest that finishing the book means exposing a long‑hidden crime.

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.

A cryptic photograph hinting at the lost gold of Troy draws Vicky Bliss and her boss Schmidt to a snowy Bavarian village, where old colleagues, Cold War shadows and the unexpected return of Sir John Smythe entangle them in avalanches, ambushes and buried loot.

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.

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.

Craving excitement, librarian Jacqueline Kirby heads to a flamboyant romance‑writers’ convention in New York, where the sudden death of a gossip columnist and a nervous bestselling author convince her that jealousy and secrets are turning fantasy into murder.

A single red rose, a ticket to Stockholm and a Latin message lure Vicky Bliss into another of Sir John Smythe’s schemes, landing her on a Swedish island where rival treasure hunters, a fifth‑century chalice and shifting loyalties leave her literally digging for survival.

On sabbatical in Denmark, American scholar Elizabeth Jones meets her idol, Nobel laureate Margaret Rosenberg, and becomes her assistant, only to be swept into a quirky kidnapping case that leads from Copenhagen’s streets to remote countryside hideouts.

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.

Returning to her cherished childhood refuge in rural Maryland, Laurie expects peace at Idlewood, but eerie piping in the woods, old tales of a seductive spirit and escalating incidents around her frail aunt hint that someone is using legend to mask lethal intent.

Fledgling anthropologist D.J. Abbott takes a summer job at an Arizona ranch run by a billionaire collector of wild theories, then finds herself sorting through cults, buried “dragons” and desert kidnappers when her employer suddenly disappears.

This lively history surveys ancient Egypt from its earliest settlements through Cleopatra, blending clear explanations of dynasties, religion and daily life with anecdotes about archaeologists, excavations and the monuments that later shaped Elizabeth Peters’s fiction.

When a dead man’s suit yields a brilliantly forged Charlemagne pendant, Vicky Bliss follows the trail to Rome’s antique quarter, where elegant palaces, dubious nobility and a master thief known as Sir John Smythe pull her into art crime and danger.

House‑sitting for her eccentric aunt in a historic Virginia town sounds cozy to Ellie, until eerie manifestations, simmering feuds among founding families and increasingly malicious pranks suggest that someone wants her driven out or dead.

Young archaeology student Susan joins a dig in the Scottish Highlands, but a dying stranger’s cryptic message and a subsequent murder send her fleeing across misty glens with unconventional laird Jamie Erskine as smugglers and killers close in.

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.

Invited to a costume weekend at an English manor full of Richard III devotees, Jacqueline Kirby expects spirited debate, not staged accidents that copy fifteenth‑century murders, until one turns fatal and she must unmask a killer hiding behind pageantry.

Ambitious art historian Vicky Bliss cannot resist a centuries‑old puzzle about a missing Riemenschneider altar, joining rival scholars at a crumbling German castle where secret passages, staged hauntings and very real attacks suggest someone will kill for the prize.

Graduate student Jean Suttman thinks life in Rome is paradise until a fellow member of her bohemian study circle is murdered in the Temple of Mithra and a string of accidents convince her and visiting librarian Jacqueline Kirby that someone wants Jean dead.

A mysterious newspaper clipping suggesting her long‑missing father is alive lures Carol Farley to Mexico City, where ancient pyramids, family secrets and a ruthless drug ring turn a hopeful reunion into a fight for survival.

On a long‑dreamed‑of tour of the Middle East, Dinah van der Lyn hears a cry for help through her hotel wall and stumbles into a deadly search for missing scholars, coded clues and secrets hidden among biblical sites from Beirut to Jerusalem.

American Jessica Tregarth expects a quiet visit to her English grandfather, but a stolen family ring, shadowy pursuers and a charming gothic novelist sweep her across cathedrals and Cornish cliffs in a chase tied to a legendary Arthurian hoard.

Althea Tomlinson returns to Luxor as a hired chaperone but secretly to learn why her archaeologist father died there, only to uncover an unplundered tomb, dazzling treasure and killers determined that the past stay buried.