The Curse of the Pharaohs - Softcover

Elizabeth Peters is a prolific and successful writer of over 50 books. She is internationally celebrated for her mystery stories (especially those featuring her indomitable Victorian heroine, Amelia Peabody). She earned her PhD in Egyptology from University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Named Grandmaster at the Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998, in 2003, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She lives in an historic farmhouse in Frederick, Maryland, with six cats and two dogs.

''Grand views of Egyptian antiquities...a sparkling series.'' --New York Times Book Review

''Amelia is rather like Indian Jones, Sherlock Holmes, and Miss Marple all rolled into one.'' --Washington Post Book World

''If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian Times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson.'' --Publishers Weekly

If Indiana Jones were female, a wife, and a mother who lived in Victorian Times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson. --Publishers Weekly