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The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody #3) by Elizabeth Peters
bookshelves: series, afr-egypt, mystery-thriller, victoriana, tbr-busting-2013, summer-2013, amusing, archaeology
Read from June 23 to 24, 2013
Running time 12:14:56
Peters is pretty scathing about de Morgan, Petrie, Budge:
Qurna: robber villageThis is singularly arch in audio form and it becomes wearisome to engage with when they are over long. No doubt in a while another episode from this series will be yearned for, however for the moment, a break.
Summer 2013 Egyptian Encounters:
Cleopatra (1963) Film Only
3* The Mummy Curse
2* Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra
4* The Complete Valley of the Kings
1* Revisit: Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
4* Re-visit Tutankhamen: Life and death of a Pharoah
2* The Luxor Museum
Amelia Peabody's archaeologist husband Emerson is on a dig where nothing seems worthy of interest, until a sinister murder suspect turns up at the site. Danger mounts when Amelia and Emerson look for answers in an ancient tomb that nearly becomes their grave
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