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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Amelia Peabody and her family have set out for the ruins of Napata in the heart of Sudan, only to be sidetracked by the search for a long lost explorer.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplaces of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramseś??and an expedition...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
While Amelia and her family are in Egypt, her house is burglarized, she becomes a shooter's target, and her son is implicated in a paternity scandal.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Amelia Peabody and her husband's lives are threatened when they embark for the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
"Egypt, 1912. Amelia Peabody and her dashing archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are once again in danger as they search for a priceless, stolen bust of legendary Queen Nefertiti and Amelia finds herself the target of assassins in this long-awaited, eagerly anticipated final installment of Elizabeth Peters's bestselling, beloved mystery series"--
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Amelia investigates the death of a dealer in illegal antiquities which puts her in the path of the intriguing but deadly Master Criminal.
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a caf�e, they call in archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who...
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Sean Reilly thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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In a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace ... In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family experience various adventures in Egypt early this century while accompanying her husband who is digging in tombs. The boys go undercover in search of a villain while the daughter becomes involved in the local version of women's lib. By the author of Seeing a Large Cat.
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Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As war rages in 1944, young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb. Shipped to Princeton University for study, the box contains mysteries that only Lucas, aided by brilliant archaeologist Simone Rashid, can unlock.
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Series
Laetitia Talbot mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After the murder of her beloved uncle Daniel, archaeologist Laetitia Talbot receives a posthumously delivered postcard that takes her to the excavation in Burgundy where her uncle had spent his final days and finds herself searching for a long-lost repository of Templar treasure, as well as for a killer who will do anything to keep an ancient legacy hidden.
14) Plunder
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.
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Series
Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
Language
English
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It is 1914 and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. But this year a new menace hangs over the dig: rumblings of war abound in Europe while over in the East, Turkish and German forces are massing for an attack on the Suez Canal. There are problems closer to home too: their son Rameses, passionately opposed to the war, is collecting white feathers and challenges from the British community...
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Lindsay Chamberlain mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Lindsay Chamberlain knew she would be working with bones that summer. A forensic anthropologist, she was a bone expert, and that was why she was invited to participate in the Jasper Creek excavation. She had not expected, however, to find the body of a woman who had been murdered and buried at the site only fifty years ago."--Back cover.
17) The survivor
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English
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"When archeologist Riley Smith comes to ask Eve Duncan for help, Eve has to say no. Traveling halfway around the world on a dangerous quest is not her expertise as a forensic sculptor. But Eve is intrigued by the prospect of an isolated island that holds a secret locked in time. Traveling to Southeast Asia, Riley is aware of the threat from treasure hunters who are already searching and have no qualms about killing to get what they want. When she...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As the renowned granddaughter of Isabella Camherst (Lady Trent, of the riveting and daring Draconic adventure memoirs) Audrey Camherst has always known she, too, would want to make her scholarly mark upon a chosen field of study. When Lord Gleinheigh recruits Audrey to decipher a series of ancient tablets holding the secrets of the ancient Draconean civilization, she has no idea that her research will plunge her into an intricate conspiracy, one...
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Archaeologist Sage Westfield has her first forensics case: investigating the murder of a teenage girl. Hidden by holly leaves, the girl's body has been discovered on the grounds of a stately home, where another teenage girl went missing twenty years ago--but her body was never found. The police suspect the reclusive owner, Alistair Chorleigh, who was questioned but never charged. But when Sage investigates a nearby burial mound -and uncovers rumors...
20) The whisper
Author
Series
BPD-FBI series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After surviving a brutal attack in Ireland, archaeologist Sophie Malone discovers that the fabled Celtic treasure she has been searching for is now in the hands of a serial killer who is using ancient rituals to satisfy a lust for violence--a discovery that causes her to become the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
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