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The Curse of the Pharaohs

The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 2

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The Curse of the Pharaohs

By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
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The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology and romantic mystery as recounted in her lively journal, The Curse of the Pharaohs.

It was Sir Henry's intention to ensure that no tomb had been overlooked in the previous expedition. Scarcely had the men been at work for three days when their spades uncovered the first of a series of steps cut into the rock.

The Times gave the story a full column, on page three. The next dispatch to come to Luxor, however, rated front-page headlines. Sir Henry Baskerville was dead. He was found next morning stiff and stark in his bed. On his face was a look of ghastly horror. On his high brow, inscribed in what appeared to be dried blood, was a crudely drawn uraeus serpent, the symbol of the divine pharaoh.

Instead of digging up the treasures of a lost age, it appeared that Amelia and her friend Radcliffe were excavating a deadly curse.

 Historical Mystery Fiction Middle East Funny Cosy Pharaoh Africa
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"Peters really knows how to spin romance and adventure into a mystery." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Very enjoyable travelogue/historical mystery. Miss peabody unravels various clues whilst having to wait for her husband to regain his memory of being married to her.The last eleven years of their lives together.This all adds to the suspense and tests amelias patience to the limit.

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I love these stories. Full wonderful facts about Egypt and a mystery as well. Amelia and Emerson are great characters.
The narration is excellent

Brilliant adaptation

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I'm a big fan of the Amelia Peabody novels and was looking forward to an audio version. However the narration is so over egged, so excessive that it became actually unbearable. Amelia's voice is a thin high-pitched, pinch-nosed parody of upper class English Victorian. Having set that standard, all the other characters had to be similarly overdone, so grating and annoying. The accents completely took over and drowned out the story. Which as I recall from reading it, is a very good one.

Ruined by narration

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Lovely writing & narration such an interesting and exciting story - I love the series can’t wait to read the next one

Amazing story

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I loved this story which is told beautifully by Barbara Rosenblat. She manages to get a really good upper class English accent with just the right sarcastic inflection for a good put down where required. In fact all the accents are good (apart from the Irish, which wonders a bit from Belfast to Berlin).
The story has just the right amount of historical accuracy with lots of nods to real characters and situations of the time, which make it very believable, but overall it's great fun. If you enjoy a more acerbic Miss Marple who is not afraid to get her hands dirty Amelia Peabody is for you.

Wonderful story told well

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