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"Irresistible....Amelia is still a joy."
-- New York Times Book Review
Author Notes
Barbara Mertz was born on September 29, 1927 in Astoria, Illinois. She received a bachelor's degree in 1947, a master's degree in 1950 and doctorate in Egyptology in 1952 from the University of Chicago. She wrote a few books using her real name including Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs (1964), Red Land, Black Land (1966), and Two Thousand Years in Rome (1968). She also wrote under the pen names Barbara Michaels and Elizabeth Peters.
She made her fiction debut, The Master of Blacktower, under the name Barbara Michaels in 1966. She wrote over two dozen novels using this pen name including Sons of the Wolf, Someone in the House, Vanish with the Rose, Dancing Floor, and Other Worlds.
Her debut novel under the pen name Elizabeth Peters was The Jackal's Head in 1968. She also wrote the Amelia Peabody series and Vicky Bliss Mystery series using this name. She died on August 8, 2013 at the age of 85.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In Egypt, 1915, the redoubtable English archaeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her eccentric and closely knit group of family and friends are up to their old tricks. The Emersons may believe that they are merely engaging in another season of excavation, but legions of devoted readers know that Amelia's archaeological fervor has never stopped her from charging into another thrilling episode of crime-solving, dragging her husband and children enthusiastically along. Amelia's son, Ramses, and his new wife, Nefret, are trying to settle into their married life and find ways to build a more equal relationship with their overwhelming and irrepressibly adventurous parent. Amelia is worried, however, that an officious British army officer might try to recruit Ramses again as a spy (as in the previous book, 2000's He Shall Thunder in the Sky). To keep him out of the spymaster's clutches, she sends Ramses and Nefret off to Luxor to investigate a series of thefts from archaeological sites. As always in this series of uproarious Egyptological mysteries, plenty of strange doings are afoot in the desert, and readers will find all the delicious trappings of a vintage Peters extravaganza lost tombs, kidnappings, deadly attacks, mummies and sinister villains. (May 1) Forecast: Her large and faithful following will ensure that Peters, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, once again reaches the lofty heights of the bestseller lists. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
If you thought that the Master Criminal bit the dust in Peters' He Shall Thunder in the Sky [BKL My 1 00], you'd be wrong. The infamous, exasperating Sethos, Amelia Peabody's devoted admirer (and Emerson's illegitimate half-brother and "deadliest enemy") has been resurrected. Having seemingly abandoned his righteous work for the British government in Egypt, he's back to his old tricks: stealing antiquities. Unfortunately, there's someone else in Luxor almost as nefarious as Sethos, who is looking for the very same extraordinary treasure. There are the requisite kidnappings, murders, and social obligations on the way to working everything out, but as in her previous books in the series, Peters delivers a great blend of adventure and wit; she even opens the way for Nefret and Ramses to advance into a few adventures all their own. And, of course, there's plenty of fun poked at stuffy early-twentieth-century British society and at heroics in general: as Emerson stoutly announces when congratulated on another astounding escape, "Good Gad . . . all that is required is courage and strength, superior intelligence, quick wits, the ability to respond instantly to unexpected emergencies." Enough said? --Stephanie Zvirin
Library Journal Review
In another exciting adventure from Peters's fertile pen, Amanda Peabody and husband Emerson are determined to return to their beloved Egypt to excavate at Giza despite the war with Germany. They are immediately plunged into danger when their son, Ramses, is attacked in the streets of Cairo. Since Sethos, the Peabodys' arch enemy, died in this work's predecessor (He Shall Thunder in the Sky), someone else is the culprit. Trailing the usual entourage of friends and loyal servants, Peabody and company must find out who is robbing royal tombs and producing inconvenient and unexpected corpses. Filled with her trademark elements of humor and romance, this will charm Peters's many fans. Essential for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/01.] Laurel Bliss, Arts Lib., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.