Elizabeth Peters

Nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson, and her precocious son, Ramses, embark on an archaeological adventure, digging up trouble amid thieves and thugs at an Egyptian tomb

The Hippopotamus Pool

Sarah Sammis

There is a follow up book to this one in the series that I have read. It revisits so much of the plot and characters that I felt like I had already read this one. There was too much chit-chat amongst the characters and too much random ponderings by the main character for my tastes. The plot seemed to go in short bursts between all the useless padding.

Rebecca C Wright

A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb...and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the husband-and-wife team sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped-and hampered-by their teenage son, Ramses, and beautiful ward, Nefret. But before the sands of time shift very far, all will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. And the Hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type-a nefarious, overweight art dealer who may become her next archenemy!

The Hippopotamus Pool

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