The Mummy Case

Peabody and Emerson are hoping for a quiet dig season, but with their son Ramses along for the ride, nothing is going to be quiet.. ever!
As soon as they get to Cairo, they are embroiled in a new mystery and Amelia is sure that there is a master criminal afoot. After two murders and some mysterious disappearances of antiquities, even Emerson has to agree that something is going on.


I LOVE these books. Embroiled with history and a little mystery, these books will keep you chuckling as you go through the pages.

Peabody, Emerson and their precocious son Rames are off on an excavation site in Egypt. Rames is a handful always going off and getting into stuff. I think the child is 3 but he acts like 30. There is a mummy case of which Emerson has declared worthless but it is stolen anyway. Peabody thinks there is more to it and gets herself involved in trying to find out just what is going on there. There are clashing religious leaders as well. Are they involved in the thefts or just warring with each other.

Another delightful installment of this series.

In this book, because of Emerson's tardiness in booking a location, he and Peabody are doomed to excavate in a most unpromising area of Egypt, where they find nothing of interest. However, they find themselves under attack by two different people, operating independently, for reasons that are unknown until the end of the story.

As usual in this series, I have little interest in the overcomplex mystery that underlies the plot of the story, but I enjoy the dialogue and the thought processes of our intrepid heroine. Emerson and Peabody are amusing, and their precocious 7-year-old son Ramses is hilarious: I laughed out loud repeatedly while reading.

The amusement value is such that I might give the book 4 stars, but I deduct a star for the rather tedious mystery.

Ramses appeared only briefly in the preceding book; this is the first one in which he's present for the whole length of the story, and plays a significant part in the plot.