Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is back for more exotic suspense when a night watchman at the British Museum is found dead in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case. Skeptical of an ancient curse, Amelia is hot on the trail of the real killer. HC: Atheneum.
"The joy of the Amelia books has always been their elegant sense of humor. . . . Peters manages to satirize romantic thrillers while producing some of the finest in the genre."