The Goodreads reviews are really mixed, but I have a feeling that’s because the book was first published in 1975, so I’m sure the subject matter and style feel a bit dated by now. I feel pretty certain that it was recommended by an author I follow (Gail Carriger? Dana Stabenow?), enough to make me want to check it out. I’m wracking my brain trying to remember how I first heard of this book. I bought a used paperback edition at least five years ago.
The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn’t need women to help him solve mysteries - at least that’s what he thinks! On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress – Evelyn Barton-Forbes – and the two become friends. In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads) :Īmelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters’ most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men’s pants and no-nonsense attitude!
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