Archaeologist Amelia Peabody is working with her husband to uncover some of Egypt's ancient tombs, but soon she becomes involved in a modern day mystery that has strange attachments to the past.

Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, is hired to thwart the major heist of Egyptian antiquities. Will she risk her life to stop the theft?

The story finds university historian Vicki Bliss and her colleague, Tony, trying to track down a lost piece of German art, the last work of a master wood carver who died in the 16th century. Most of the story takes place in a medieval castle in a small German town, complete with a mysterious late-night spectre, secret passageways, and a bloody history reaching clear back to the time when the missing carving was created.

Amelia Peabody and her husband's lives are threatened when they embark for the pyramids of ancient Egypt.

Amelia Peabody and family begin the 1903 "digging" season in Egypt with the usual anticipation. At least two pleas for help and a mysterious warning about a Valley of the Kings tomb, however, complicate life and lead to the expected dangerous adventure.

Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at home in Kent, England, when a mysterious messenger arrives. Claiming to be the teenage brother of their dear friend, Tarek, Prince of the mysterious Lost Oasis, the charismatic herald brings troubling news of a strange malady that has struck down Tarek's heir and conveys his brother's urgent need for help only...

Revisiting Egypt in 1917 with her husband, son, and daughter-in-law, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody stumbles across a murdered body, a situation that is complicated by an assignment from British intelligence and her daughter-in-law's troubling secret.

Intrigued by a fragment of the anicent fairytale, "The doomed prince," and hoping to put a little romance back in their marriage, Amelia Peabody, the eminent Egyptologist, and her dashing husband Emerson head for Egypt. However, instead of rejuvenation, they discover a deadly plot when that are forced to confront their deadliest enemy. And so cunning is his scheme that Amelia might overlook-until it is too late-the truth about the mysterious cat called...

"Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--

"Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried desperately to persuade Lord Camarvon and Howard Carter to relinquish their digging rights. But Emerson's trickery has backfired, and his insistent interest...