Russell's ebook Library
The Ape Who Guards the Balance
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [10]: Prospects for the 1907 archaeological season in Egypt are looking somewhat dull to Amelia. As a result of Emerson's less-than-diplomatic behaviour, they have been demoted to examining only the most boring tombs in the Valley of t...
Borrower of the Night
Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss [1]: This title features a new heroine from the creator of the internationally bestselling "Amelia Peabody" series.A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of sixteenth century Germ...
The Camelot Caper
Elizabeth Peters
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise — an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her.But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to ste...
Children of the Storm
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [15]: This is the fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan!At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another seas...
The Copenhagen Connection
Elizabeth Peters
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport.An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar's new private assistant. But lu...
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [1]: Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery.Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Eve...
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [2]: When Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after discovering what may have been an undisturbed royal tomb in Luxor, she appeals to eminent archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia to take over the excavation. Amid r...
The Dead Sea Cipher
Elizabeth Peters
It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity, a rare opportunity to visit biblical places shrouded in mystery. But in a Jerusalem hotel room a world away from everything she knows, Dinah van der Lyn hears angry voices through the wall...
The Deeds of the Disturber
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [5]: Can fear kill? There are those who believe so - but Amelia Peabody is skeptical.A respected Egyptologist and amateur sleuth, Amelia has foiled felonious schemes from Victoria's England to the Middle East. And she doubts that it wa...
Devil May Care
Elizabeth Peters
Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes - including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia.Ellie feels right at home here wit...
Die for Love
Elizabeth Peters
Jacqueline Kirby [3]: The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement.But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering ...
The Falcon at the Portal
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [11]: Amelia and family have arrived in Egypt for the 1911 archeological season - after the marriage of young Ramses' best friend David to Amelia's niece Lia. But trouble finds them immediately when David is accused of selling ancient ...
The Golden One
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [14]: Emerson is counting on a long season of excavation without distractions but this proves to be a forlorn hope. Yet again they unearth a dead body in a looted tomb - not a mummified one though, this one is only too fresh, and it le...
Guardian of the Horizon
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [16]: Banned from the Valley of the Kings, Amelia Peabody and her distinguished husband have returned to England with their 19-year-old son Ramses and their foster daughter, Nefret.Ramses is secretly in love with Nefret and plans to fl...
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [12]: 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, Tur...
The Hippopotamus Pool
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [8]: Amelia, her husband Emerson, their 13-year-old son Ramses, and their beautiful ward Nefret return to Egypt for an exciting excavation.The dig is at an undisturbed Royal Tomb, a true find - and an irresistible temptation for art th...
The Jackal's Head
Elizabeth Peters
Althea Tomlinson says she has returned to Egypt to see the sights, and to chaperon a spoiled teenager through this strange and breathtaking desert land.The truth is more complex... and dangerous. Ten years ago, something here brought about her father...
The Last Camel Died at Noon
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [6]: This time, Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be unwillingly drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years bac...
The Laughter of Dead Kings
Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss [6]: For the first time in more than a decade, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters brings beautiful, brainy Vicky Bliss back into the spotlight for one last investigation.But this time the peerless art historian and s...
Legend in Green Velvet
Elizabeth Peters
Scotland is Susan's passion and obsession - and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student.But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse - and is later found viciously s...
Lion in the Valley
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [4]: The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses.The long-denied permission...
Lord of the Silent
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [13]: Undeterred by world war and enemy submarines, Amelia and Emerson set sail once again for Egypt, where ghosts of an ancient past and spectres of a present-day evil hover silently over an inscrutable land.In the autumn of 1915, Cai...
The Love Talker
Elizabeth Peters
Laurie has finally returned to Idlewood, the beloved family home deep in the Maryland woods where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl.But things are very different now. There is no peace in Idlewood. The haunting sound of a distant pip...
The Mummy Case
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [3]: The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is living up to his reputation as 'The Father of Curses'. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the 'pyramids' of Mazghunah ...
The Murders of Richard III
Elizabeth Peters
Jacqueline Kirby [2]: When attractive American Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair, she experts only one mystery. Since the hosts and guests are all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, they hope to...
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