Who is Elizabeth Peters

The Amelia Peabody series is a series of mystery novels written by Elizabeth Peters featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson, for whom the series is named. The novels are intended as a blend of parody (mostly of the adventure novel, such as written by H. Rider Haggard), mystery, and comedy. The series spans a thirty-eight year period from 1884 to 1923 and is primarily set in Egypt, with some installments including action in England and Gaza. Only one novel in the series (Deeds of the Disturber) has been set entirely outside of Egypt, taking place entirely in England.

The first installment, Crocodile on the Sandbank, was first published in 1975. By the late 1990s, new books were published at the rate of one annually, with many of the later books in the series appearing on the New York Times Bestseller List for fiction. As of the latest installment (Tomb of the Golden Bird in 2006), the Amelia Peabody Series consisted of 18 novels as well as one non-fiction companion book, Category: Amelia Peabodys Egypt: A Compendium - .

The series has been written in chronological order, with the exception of Guardian of the Horizon, which was the sixteenth book published, but is the 11th book in the series own chronology. Elizabeth Peters has suggested that any future installments in the series may also be written out of sequence, as the series takes place in real time and the aging of the characters might preclude extending the series much further than the point at which it currently ends, in 1923.

The earlier books in the series are written entirely as first-person narrative, with the novels purporting to be edited versions of journals kept by Amelia herself. According to the series mythology, the initial cache of journals that provided the narrative for the Amelia Peabody series were discovered in the attic of the ancestral home of the Tregarth family in Cornwall, England, into which Amelia's as-yet unnamed granddaughter eventually married (see the Vicky Bliss series final installment The Laughter of Dead Kings).

Beginning with Seeing a Large Cat, Amelia's narrative is interspersed with excerpts from "Manuscript H," a third person narrative that follows the adventures of the younger generation of the family, the author of which is eventually revealed to be Walter 'Ramses' Emerson. On rare occasion, other points of view are introduced in the form of letters and additional manuscripts.

Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek , Category: wiktionary - :-logia|-logia. ) is a major field of archaeology, the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an Egyptologist.