Picked this up recently at the Book Thing. Someday I'm going to get started on this series. I've heard it's very good.

From the cover -
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has inherited her father's strong will as well as his considerable fortune. On her way to Cairo to indulge her passion for Egyptology, she picks up Evelyn Barton-Forbes as a traveling companion. Evelyn has a tarnished past, but both she and Amelia believe that it won't come back to haunt her. That belief is shattered when Evelyn is attacked by a walking, homicidal mummy.
Amelia enlists the aid of Radcliff Emerson, a prominent Egyptologist, to help unravel the plot against her friend and decipher the clues left by the mummy. Between grave digging and academic sparring, she manages to save his life. But with the threat of an ancient curse closing in, Amelia must resort to outrageous methods to prevent the mummy from making corpses of them all.

I've heard many good things about the Amelia Peabody series, from numerous people here on BC. This book didn't fail to deliver, even though I figured out the identity of the mummy. I was surprised that this was written in the 1st person, although I think that will help in understanding Amelia's personality quirks - I think it will make her more likeable. I'm looking forward to reading many more of these books; I have the 2nd one - The Curse of the Pharaohs - waiting for me.

This book is reserved for an Ancient Societies bookbox early next year.

This is going into K00kaburra's Ancient Societies bookbox, which I'm hoping to mail out to PerryFran this Saturday.

Taking from k00kaburra's Ancient World bookbox. I've never read any Peters and these look to be interesting. Thanks!

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