Cloth and Hardboard. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Great War has ended at last. No longer must archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, fear for the life of their son, Ramses, now free from wartime obligations to British Intelligence. Amelia's investigation in the theft of valuable antiquities causes great concern, and sets her on a collision course with an adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. 400 pgs.

FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE WOMEN SLEUTHS PEABODY AMELIA FICTITIOUS CHARACTER HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS EGYPT 0-06-621476-9