Elizabeth Peters - Crocodile on the Sandbank

Pros: Educational and witty mystery, with romance.
Cons: Adjusting to the verbosity can take some time.

There are times that reading is more of a pleasure than others. Take for instance, the instructions on how to fill out your tax form -- definitely not a pleasure. There are times that reading will form a bond between you and potential friends -- and...

Pros: An Amusing, Different Mystery
Cons: None

Miss Amelia Peabody is a singularly unusual woman. In today’s world she would be considered a feminist. In the world of the late 1800’s, she was-among many things-an enigma. She believed in equal rights and persuade her beliefs in a forward...

Pros: tension, intellect, wit, intrigue, plot twists, and murder
Cons: slightly dated dialogue

Elizabeth Peter’s Crocodile on the Sandbank has been a favorite of mine for years. A book riddled with intrigue, suspense, and plucky characters, it is easy to become so engaged that you find yourself forcing yourself to go to bed after reading...

Pros: Funny, informative, endearing
Cons: None

This is the first of the Amelia Peabody Emerson series. It wasn't the first of the series I'd read, that was the Mummy Case. I strongly recommend reading the series in order.
This book introduces the reader to Amelia Peabody, a spinster in...

Pros: Good romance, action packed, still some manners in the world
Cons: slightly slow on the uptake.

This book is enchanting! It is the first in the series, but the second one I have read. Set in the late 1880s, Amelia Peabody (pronounced as in the title) is a self-proclaimed plain looking woman who has come into some money and has great contacts ...

Pros: amusing and fun
Cons: none

The first in a series of delightful books about archaeology, love, murder and adventure set in turn-of-the-century Egypt. This is the first meeting between Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, and a volatile meeting it is!

Amelia and her...