Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved
creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy
world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and
no-nonsense attitude!
In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her
substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she
rescues a gentlewoman in distress -- Evelyn Barton-Forbes -- and the
two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they
face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an
outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve
mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
