Village Green Mysteries
Autumn 1921. The Peabody-Emerson clan are enjoying a fruitful period of excavation in Egypt. But when they hear the alarming tale of a man's mysterious death their digging turns to detecting. His widow is convinced her husband was the victim of a curse and implores the Emersons to find and return the small 'deadly' statue that killed him to the tomb from which it was stolen -- before it claims another life. From bitter experience the Emersons know it would be a serious mistake to start chasing tomb robbers. But Amelia and family soon start to find the curse may be more real than ever imagined...
"I really do think Elizabeth Peters" - books are great entertainment.' Angela Rippon
"The most potent female force to hit Egypt since Cleopatra!" - Philadelphia Inquirer
"If Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody." - Publishers Weekly
"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key." - Washington Post Book World
"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key." - Washington Post Book World
"Think Miss Marple with early feminist gloss crossed with Indiana Jones... accomplished entertainment.'" - Guardian
